[mythtv-users] Video file DVD's/CD's?

[Chris Cooper]

Just add a symlink to your cd/dvd drive in your video folder and browse 
it via mythvideo.  You need to set the option to use a "browses files" 
view in mythvideo settings (and of course use a view for which the 
option is set), then you can browse your drive just like any other 
directory in your videos dir.

The good thing is that now (since 0.18 or 0.18.1?) mythvideo can remove 
orphaned db entries if the file is removed through means other then 
myth, even if you run the Video Manager with a disc in the drive they 
will be removed from the DB if you run it again.


Matt Goebel wrote:
> I'd like to add the ability to watch video files (mpeg, xvid etc..) off of CDs/DVDs
> to the optical disk menu.  I believe I can customize the menu by copying it to my
> myth user's home directory and adding a link to a shell script.  That seems kind of
> like a hack though.  I want something nice and clean that I can queue up files on
> the disk or play them individually.  Does anyone have a script or how-to etc to do
> this?
> 
> BTW... this should be standard functionality.  Anyone who's capable of putting
> together a working myth system has these disks laying around.
> 
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