[mythtv-users] Mount samba shares of videos on mythtv box
Xamindar
junkxamindar at gmail.com
Fri May 12 14:47:01 EDT 2006
Cole Brodine wrote:
>
>
> On 5/12/06, *Xamindar* <junkxamindar at gmail.com
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto:jchendo at gmail.com <mailto:jchendo at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/11/06, *Xamindar* < junkxamindar at gmail.com
> <mailto:junkxamindar at gmail.com>
> > <mailto: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
> > COMPUTER=192.168.2.22 <http://192.168.2.22>
> <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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I was just thinking of making a script that went through the directories
that contain my movies and shows and then made symbolic links of all the
video files into a certain directory. Then mythtv could be pointed at
that directory and only see video files. And of course have the script
check if the files are still there and remove the link if not. I'ts
slightly more complicated than the first one I made so it might take me
a while. But that idea would work.
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