Message: 8<br>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:51:42 -0700<br>From: Brad DerManouelian <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Playing XVids off a CD
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3BB15A02-8901-4E65-B181-7624F1859AED@dermanouelian.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>I think I can see it conceptually:<br><br>1. When CD/DVD placed into drive, search for <br>
a) VOB files,,or<br>b) files with extension avi or mpg.<br><br>2. If a) execute command to start DVD playback, eg xine -pfhq --no-splash<br><br>3. If b) execute command that starts player, with dialog box open in root directory of DVD drive
<br><br>4. If neither a) nor b), do nothing.<br><br>However I would not have a clue as to where to start. Have you done such a script?<br><br>Regards<br>Jongi<br><br>On Jul 27, 2007, Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br>>On Jul 27, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Jongi wrote:
<br>><br>>> > Well, it's not elegant but you could symlink your CD drive into your<br>>> > Myth videos folder, then either use the browse by filesystem view<br>>> or run<br>>> > the video manager/import to import the files for playing as
<br>>> needed. I<br>>> > like the later because once the metadata is in the system and you<br>>> don't<br>>> > delete it the next time you run the video manager and it sees the<br>>> > missing files because the CD isn't mounted, you can just insert
<br>>> the CD<br>>> > and play<br>>><br>>> Has a more elegant method of playing DivX/Xvid off a CD/DVD been<br>>> found?<br>><br>>Write a script that will look for the files on the disc you insert
<br>>and determine if it's Divx or a regular DVD or whatever and pass it<br>>to the correct player. Then point to that script when launching the<br>>Play DVD command.