[mythtv-users] Android phone / tablet use for recordings, videos and pictures

[Matt Emmott]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, william otten <williammotten at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:38 AM, william otten <williammotten at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to find out what other people are using to view their
>> recordings,
>> > videos, music and pictures via android devices locally or over the
>> internet.
>> > I looked into bubbleupnp which transcodes the videos and recordings but
>> I
>> > can't get music or pictures to work. Ideally I would like some way to
>> view
>> > these either at home on wifi or away from home via the internet.
>> > Thanks
>>
>> plex works for me with recordings and videos. Not tried with music.
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> In reading through the plex forums it seems the videos would work ok but
> recordings would be a problem due to the naming requirement of plex. If
> anyone has gotten the recordings to work please advise.
> Thanks
>
> Search the archives, I have plex working quite well with MythicalLibrarian
although it took a bit of work to get it all working. Basically ML is a
bash script run as a user job that runs after a recording, looks up the
metadata online, and creates a symlink with a sane name like  "Family Guy
S00E01 (Stewie Griffin the untold story).mpg". I then share out that
symlink folder over SMB and Plex Media Server (on a Windows machine but I
think there's a Linux version) periodically scans that folder for new
additions, and adds the episodes to its database.

Apparently in 0.25 there's something called MythMetaDataLookup which makes
a lot of this redundant, but I haven't yet looked into using that to
replace MythicalLibrarian.
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