<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> My videos directory is an SMB share and it is intentionally read-only to my<br>
> various media servers. I noticed that during Mythtv-setup, Myth complained<br>
> that it couldn't write to this directory. Can somebody tell me what Myth<br>
> needs to write to in here?<br>
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> Additionally I'm confused about the line in the wiki that says "External<br>
> Video Players (mplayer, xine, VLC) will not work with videos hosted on an<br>
> SG." - Does Myth actually modify the files in some way? This would be<br>
> catastrophic to me, as my videos are accessed by many different<br>
> applications.<br>
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</div></div>mplayer etc does not know how to play a myth:// url and therefore<br>
cannot access the url that mthvideo hands off to the player. The file<br>
is unchanged and you can still acess it outside myth via whatever<br>
protocol works with your player - eg a mount over cifs.<br>
<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div>I believe that there have been several attempts at creating a fuse virtual file system around the myth:// protocol, which would allow you to mount your storage groups as you would any other drive... however I don't think any of them are ready for prime time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With many players supporting upnp and mythtv's builtin upnp server, I find that its rare that I need filesystem level access to my storage. </div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><div><br>We're veering off topic a bit, but...<br><br>I looked into the Fuse stuff a bit but ended up going with the MythicalLibrarian bash script to create sane filename symlinks of all of my recordings. This enables Plex and Boxee to index my recordings so I can play them on my iDevices as well as the spiffy new Plex web interface.<br>
<br>With the new APIs and MythMetaData, it seems like we're getting closer to having this functionality built in to Myth. It seems relatively easy (I'm not a dev so who knows) that a script or user job like MythicalLibrarian could be run to create symlinks using the recording title, season and episode number purely from querying the metadata. It is a bit of a paradigm shift because using this model you can forego a Myth FE altogether to play back your recordings, but it's something I'm patiently looking forward to.<br>
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