[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?

[David Blevins]

On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> David Blevins wrote:
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>> On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>> David Blevins wrote:
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>>>> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Robert Johnston wrote:
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>>>>> On 23/09/05, David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> So I'm having a heck of a time ripping with MythDVD.  No  
>>>>>> worries  as I
>>>>>> really don't care to if I can avoid it.  I have a ton of dvds   
>>>>>> already
>>>>>> ripped and burnt and simply want to copy a few of them to disk  
>>>>>> now
>>>>>> and then for easy access via the Media Library.  Not afraid of
>>>>>> showing stuff in the mythconverg db via perl fun to do this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any pointers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Copy the files into the Video folder (That MythVideo is looking  
>>>>> at),
>>>>> and go into "Setup -> Video Manager" on the Frontend, which will
>>>>> automatically discover all the new files you've just added. Then
>>>>> scroll to each one, press the "Menu" key (M, usually) and choose
>>>>> "Search IMDB" to get all the metadata for the video.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> It doesn't seem that MythVideo can handle whole DVDs in the  
>>>> video   dir.  At least when I copied one over and pulled up the  
>>>> Video  Manager  it listed each file in the VIDEO_TS directory   
>>>> individually.  None of  them were playable either.
>>>>
>>>> I hunted down the info needed to get the transcode daemon  
>>>> running  and  ripped a small title of a DVD at "perfect"  
>>>> quality.  I ended  up with  a single .vob file, went to Video  
>>>> Manager to get it  recognize,  browsed over to MythVideo and ...  
>>>> nothing, doesn't play.
>>>>
>>>> I must be missing something.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Check your player command-line for the .VOB extension and make  
>>> sure  it works outside of Myth since that's really what is  
>>> happening  (just launching an external viewer).
>>>
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>> Aha.  Is there any support for filling that info in automatically  
>> or  is it pretty standard to have to manually fill in the command  
>> line  arg to play each thing in the video manager's list?
>>
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> You need to configure the player for each particular extension type  
> you want to play.  You can also optionally have a special command- 
> line for each video if you have a need for it.
>

(for the archives)

I checked and .vob is setup as using the default player.  So I  
checked out the command for playing and it looks like the path to  
mplayer is wrong.  (running a knoppmyth box)  So I symlinked it:

   ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer

Then I got:

    
======================================================================== 
==
   vo: X11 running at 720x480 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" =>  
local display)
   It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
   Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/ 
video.html#xv!
   See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try - 
vo x11
   Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

I'm using the TV-OUT on my PVR 350, so I can see why it didn't work.

   /usr/local/bin/mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 %s

And it did work.

-David