[mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

[David A. Mason]

Actually, either instead or in addition to the below, I think it would be a
great convenience to be able to pop in a CD containing a movie file or files
and to be able to select its filename from a list or sublist in mythvideo,
without having to do any prep of having added symlinks for the particular
movies to the directory.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Rives
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:32 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files


I had thought about doing that at first. Although, is it possible to have
MythVideo launch a shell script instead of trying to launch mplayer? If so,
I could create a script that opened the appropriate file, launched mplayer,
requested CD 2, and so on... the file that mythvideo would see would just be
the script. The symlink would be something link this, correct?

ln -s /dev/cdrom1/part1.avi /var/lib/mythvideo/part1.avi

So, when mythvideo goes through and adds videos to the db it sees this and
treats it as a video file, even if the cd is not inserted. When the CD is
in, if you launch that video it plays from the CD.

This may be OT, but how do you automount cdrom drivers in RH9?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of John Rives
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:18 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files
> >
> >
> > Please forgive me if this has already been covered, in my searching
> > I
did
> > not find a solution.
> >
> > Would it be possible / could someone point me in the right direction
> > to enable MythVideo to work with offline content? I have many videos
archived
> > to CD that I would like to include in MythVideo database (browse
> > through them), but when selected be prompted to insert the 
> > appropriate CD to
begin
> > watching the video. In addition to this, spanning would be nice - if
> > a specific video has two CD's, for it to prompt for CD 1, launch the
player,
> > then prompt for CD 2, launch the player, the exit back into
> > MythVideo.
It
> > would be incredible to keep 50-60 files available in mythvideo for
> > on-demand (live on hard drive), and have others available upon 
> > request by entering appropriate CD (have it know the filename).
>
> Well, I can't help you with spanning or *quite* the feature list you
request
> (short of saying 'submit a patch'), but you could create a symlink to
> your CD/DVD mount point in your mythvideo storage directory.  It 
> wouldn't
prompt
> you if the right CD wasn't mounted, but at least you'd be able to
> maintain your movies in the mythvideo DB, and if the CD was mounted, 
> play the ones
on
> that CD.
>
> -JAC
>
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