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This is the original reason I started looking at MythTV. I have a Sony
DVP-CX985V 400 disc changer (I've still got my old 200 disc model that
I grew out of) and I hate the UI. I wanted a better method of
cateloging and finding my DVD's. The higher end Sony 700ES has a
serial port that you can use to control it and supposedly, you get
instantaneous control, not this stupid thing where when you select a
DVD, it plays all the nonsense at the beginning not allowing you to
stop it and go to the menu. I was reading another list somewhere where
they found that the internals of the 700ES was the same as the 985, in
fact they upgraded the 985's firmware with the version that went in the
700ES and got almost all of the 700ES features. I cracked my case and
I think I see where the serial port would interface to but I haven't
been able to Google any hardware hacks for it. When I get a chance,
I'll trace the signals on that connector and see if it is the serial
port.<br>
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With my current setup, the DVD changer and the digitial cable receiver
feed into an A/V receiver. The problem is that I don't want to have to
switch the A/V receiver's inputs to select a DVD. I'd like to run the
DVD into a PVR-150's SVIDEO input and the digital receiver into another
SVIDEO input and let MythTV be the A/V receiver. Not only will this
allow me to not have to mess with the feeds but also allows a 2nd
front-end to access the DVD changer, making the DVD changer not a lot
different than the video library in MythTV (although only one FE can
control it at a time).<br>
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I was thinking more along the lines of modifying the video database to
store the DVD location (multiple changers also?) and modify MythVideo
for the new capability. This is, of course, what I'd like to do, I'm
just not sure how long it will take me to get there :)<br>
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Scott<br>
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Ben Norling wrote:
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I am planning to use the video section of mythtv
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<pre wrap="">I also want the myth system to control the dvd
changer.
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<pre wrap="">Sounds neat; what DVD changer do you have? I've
thought about this myself.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I have a 400 disc sony dvd changer.
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<pre wrap=""> What I planned was this:
Put text files in the video section of the hard
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<pre wrap="">mplayer, a program will launch which sends ir
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<pre wrap="">I do something similar. For mythvideo and mythdvd I
have a small bash script that runs instead of
xine/mplayer directly. It looks at the extention of
the file it was passed to do different things: play
a file in mplayer or xine, play a list of files,
play an entire dir.
You could easily do something like that and have it
do "something" if it sees "some cool movie.changer"
for instance.
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<pre wrap="">Otherwise it will
launch mplayer with the name of the file. I'd
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<pre wrap="">like a program that would intercept IR codes from
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<pre wrap="">player so I can use the myth remote for the dvd
changer.
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<pre wrap="">I'm not sure what codes you need to intercept/send:
pause/rew/ff/left/right/up/down/select/menu/stop?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Those are pretty much the codes I would want to
intercept. The goal here being that you use the myth
remote to control the dvd player much the same way as
you would the movies played from files. All a part
of the wife-proofing effort of my system.
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<pre wrap="">I'm sure you can do this pretty easily from what
I've done with LIRC.
My system includes a receiver and blaster and you
could hook them together with a shell script or C
program.
But this brings up another question: where does the
video/audio from this thing go? into a
video/audio-in in the computer? (not really worth it
unless you want to record it; it won't look as good)
or directly into the tv and you need to have the tv
switch inputs when the changer plays? (sounds more
likely; but are you going to IR blast the TV to
switch back and forth?)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yes, the blaster would be switching the input on a AV
receiver when switching to a DVD movie versus a file
movie. When you're done watching the movie, you hit
the exit button on the remote (Or whatever) and the
ir-blaster stops the dvd player and switches the
receiver back to the myth input and exits from the
"special" program. The whole goal of all of this is
to have as seamless an integration as possible. By
the way, what IR blaster are you using?
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<pre wrap="">Sounds interesting; I may want to setup the same
thing.
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