[mythtv-users] Re: Removable media browser?

[John Johnson]

You could do this with irexec. Assign a button the would copy the file. 
If there is a way to get the currently highlighted selection from the 
frontend, it would be easy. If not, you could cook up something like 
so:

Assume mplayer is currently playing the file, you have irexec run a 
script something like so: (this is pseudo-code)

#!/bin/sh

CURRENT_FILE=`ps ax | grep mplayer | cut "-d " -f10`    # something 
like that
cp "$CURRENT_FILE" /myth/video

As I said, that's pseudo-code. You'd have to adjust the -f10 parameter, 
possible the "-d " parameter too.

Regards,
   JJ

On 03-Jan-2005, at 09:26, Juan C. Gallardo wrote:

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>  This might not be what you want, but if you place a symlink of the 
> dvd in the video directory, and use submount to mount your dvd, then 
> whenever you insert a data dvd, cdrom or whatever, you will be able to 
> see them in the list of movies.
>  You will not be able to copy them to the HD, but you can watch them.
>
>  Juan
>
>  Brad wrote:
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>  | <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 
> 0 } -->Re: Removable media browser?
>  | If I may interject... I am SOOOoooo looking for this feature too. 
> Basically, I have a whole bunch of data DVDs with various stuff 
> archived on them (shows, movies, clips, etc). Currently, I load them 
> onto my MythTV box by inserting them into my Mac and copying them over 
> the network. Of course, the WAF for this is very low. I would love to 
> be able to insert one of these DVDs in the drive of my Myth box and 
> navigate the directories to play the files directly from MythVideo.
>  |
>  | I haven't mentioned it as I assumed this functionality was hidden 
> somewhere and I just haven't found it.  ;-)
>  |
>  | If it were further possible to copy one of those files to the Myth 
> box's HD directly from the MythTV UI (e.g. using the remote control), 
> it would seriously lower the number of requests I get from my 
> girlfriend for "tech support"
>  |
>  |
>  |>  That would be cool, but I dont exactly see how that would be 
> helpful,
>  |
>  |> could you give an example?
>  |
>  |>
>  |>
>  |> On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:40:26 +0100, Joakim Kolsjö 
> <trejje at gmail.com> wrote:
>  |
>  |> > Hi
>  |
>  |> >
>  |
>  |>  > I'm curious if anyone has though of adding a menu option like 
> "Optic
>  |
>  |> > discs->Browse DVD/CD" for looking at the contents of a cd or 
> dvd, play
>  |
>  |> > files by type and maybe even copy selected ones to the hd in the
>  |
>  |> > proper places. This is the way many dvd players work with normal 
> cds,
>  |
>  |> > so it would be a nice feature... imho.
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