[mythtv-users] Viewing video files on CD??

[Paul Bender]

Alan Murrell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have several CDs with .avi and .mpg files on them.  Typically if I want to 
> watch one of them, I have to copy the video file to the hard disk on my 
> MythTV box then watch it off the hard disk.
> 
> Has anyone by any chance setup MythTV so that it can load the files on the CD 
> directly and allow one to watch them?  For example, perhaps it automounts the 
> CD, performs a scan for new video files, then lists them when one goes to the 
> appropriate menu item in MythTV (Media Library -> Watch Videos)?
> 
> Is there some sort of HOWTO?
> 
> Please advise.  I look forward to hearing from you.

If you have configured your distribution to send udev events to your 
MythTV frontend and enabled CD/DVD monitoring on your MythTV frontend, 
then it should just work. That is is how it is configured in recent 
versions of MiniMyth and it works. Of course, if your distribution does 
not use udev, then you may be out of luck.

For information on how to configure your distribution to send udev 
events to your MythTV frontend look at the mythtv.rules file in the 
contrib directory of the MythTV distribution.