[mythtv-users] Mount samba shares of videos on mythtv box

[Cole Brodine]

I use the same method that you do to mount external files with Samba.
Daniel is right, you just need to change your mythvideo settings to enable
"Video List Browses Files".  That's what I did and it works great.  If you
don't have this enabled then you have to scan for new files everytime before
you run Mythtvideo.

On 5/11/06, Chris Henderson <jchendo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 5/11/06, Xamindar <junkxamindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > First of all has anyone done this?
> >
> > What I am going to try to do is have a cron job that will check to see
> > if my desktop is up and then mount the video directory of my desktop
> > onto my mythtv box. Then hopefully add a menu option to browse that
> > folder and launch a program like xine or mplayer with the files. It will
> > also have to check every minute or so and unmount the share if my
> > desktop goes down.
> >
> > I already made the script and it works pretty good:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > ## Set these variables for your system
> > #STORAGE should be set to where you localy (on mythtv box) mount your
> > samba share
> > STORAGE=/mnt/video/external_videos
> > # set this one to the ip or hostname of the computer with the share to
> > be mounted
> > COMPUTER2.168.2.22
> > # Your samba share
> > SHARE=//192.168.2.22/storage
> > #########Do not modify the following##########
> >
> > # Set variables
> > MOUNTED=`mount | grep -c -m 1 $STORAGE`
> > UP=`ping -c1 $COMPUTER | grep "[0-9] received" | awk '{print $4}'`
> > #Thanks Seth ;)
> >
> > # Check if the machine is up AND not mounted, then mount the share
> >
> > if [ "$UP" = "1" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "0" ]; then
> >         smbmount $SHARE $STORAGE -o guest
> > fi
> >
> > # Check if the machine is down AND mounted, then unmount the share
> >
> > if [ "$UP" = "0" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "1" ]; then
> >         umount -l $STORAGE
> > fi
> >
> >
> > Now I just need to figure out a way to have mythtv display a list of the
> > folder's contents and allow me to select files to by played.  I tried
> > using myth video but it doesn't show any files to be played.  Also, it
> > would be useful if I could select a bunch of files and have it play them
> > all one after the other for example in a playlist.
> >
> > Any ideas of what I can add to my mythtv menus?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > _
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry i can t help you with this in the slightest, but you might have
> helped me figure out a wayto copy new recordings to my main machine or my
> laptop so i can watch thenon the trian into work.
>
> thanks
>
> CH
>
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