[mythtv-users] watching recordings on windows via samba share to myth box

[Mario L]

well if you have the myth tv filters installed, you can add additional
columns to the folder view of your samba share.  the myth filters add
i know at least "description" "channel" "episode", and probably some
others.  You can then just browse the folder and choose one, and open
it in your media player of choice.


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:47:56 -0500, thunderducks <thunderducks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I would share this hack in case anyone else was looking to do this:
> I've installed the VLC client on my laptop and was happy with the way
> the way recordings played via the samba share to my recordings
> directory.  The one thing that was missing for me was a decent
> description of the hard to decipher file names.  Enter the mythweb
> recordings page which has a beautiful layout of your recordings with
> descriptions etc. So I thought, why not hack the php code to redirect
> to local samba file - so here's the process I went through to get that
> done.
> 
> 1. on the windows machine I installed the latest version of VideoLan
> Client (vlc)  www.videolan.org 
> 2. on the windows machine I registered a new protocol called vlc.  I
> did this by creating a new key using regedit that points anything with
> the vlc: prefix to the vlc viewer. Here is the structure of the new
> key:
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT]
>    [vlc]
>        (Default) = "URL:vlc Protocol"
>        URL Protocol = ""
>        [DefaultIcon]
>            (Default) = "vlc.exe"
>        [shell]
>            [open]
>                [command]
>                    (Default) = "c:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" " %L"
> 
> 3. On the myth side, I edited the recorded_progams.php (buried in a
> themes directory).  I only changed the line that creates the image
> link(it's buried in an if statement that determines creates a URL for
> the image if you have that feature turned on) - I figure that way if I
> still want to download the program I can just click on the description
> and it will still function as the author intended.  So comment out the
> original image tag and replace it with something like this(you'll need
> to adjust for the name of your samba share and the directory that your
> recordings are stored in):
> echo '<a href="vlc:\\\\Mythtv\\video\\recordings\\'.basename($show->filename).'">'
> 
> once again, just for reference, Mythtv is the name of my box and my
> recordings are in /video/recordings/ - so you'll need to adjust
> accordingly.
> 
> Anyway, just a little hack I thought I'd throw out there in case
> anyone else was looking for something similar.  I've had success with
> it on 3 different windows machines so far.  I'm not a programmer or
> anything, so please let me know if there was an easier way to do this
> that I missed.
> 
> Kent
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