[mythtv-users] How to make the image gallery show MTS files?

[Marco Nelissen]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Marco Nelissen
> <marco.nelissen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Michael T. Dean
> >> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >> > Why not just name the file using one of the known extensions?  It
> seems
> >> > the
> >> > least of all evils, especially since--on any proper OS, including
> >> > GNU/Linux--file extension is meaningless (basically just being  a
> carry
> >> > over
> >> > from a certain incapable OS that many are used to).
> >>
> >> I assume it was something like wanting to take the card out of your
> >> camera, pop it into your frontend to view, and then put it back in the
> >> camera with the working files still on it.
> >
> >
> > Something like that. There's an EyeFi card in the camera so I don't even
> > need to remove the card, the pictures just show up in the gallery
> > automatically :)
> > I edited the mythgallery.so binary, and that solved the problem with the
> > .mts videos. Who needs wmv support anyway, right?
>
> So how does that work? Are you accessing it off the card? Or does the
> card upload it automatically, so that's it locally stored on the
> mythbox during playback?


The files get copied to the NAS (and uploaded to Picasa) whenever the
camera/card is within wifi range.


> If uploaded, then there is another way you
> could have solved it. You could install a service called incron to
> launch a script to rename the file after it is finished being
> uploaded. I do stuff like that with incron. When my android phone
> finishes uploading a video to a certain directory, the frontend
> launches playback in myth automatically.
>

I really want to keep the file names the same, so I don't end up with
differently named duplicates at some point.
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