[mythtv-users] Mount samba shares of videos on mythtv box
Cole Brodine
cbrodine at gmail.com
Fri May 12 08:17:38 EDT 2006
On 5/12/06, Xamindar <junkxamindar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cole Brodine wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto:jchendo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/11/06, *Xamindar* < junkxamindar at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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 <http://192.168.2.22>
> > # 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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> I think that worked guys, thanks. It lists all files, even if they are
> not video files. Is it supposed to do that?
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Mine does that as well. I'm not sure if there's a way to change that or
not, but I just moved my non-video files to a different directory or deleted
them.
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