[mythtv-users] vlc for ISO-files

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Swanseasurfing <swanseasurfing at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> playing DVDs with the internal player works fine. But playing DVD ISO
> files looks garbled. So I would like to use vlc as player for ISO files.
> According to http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC I should use
>
>        vlc file://%s vlc://quit
>
> But "%s" is replaced by an URL beginning with "myth://". This kind of URL
> is not working for vlc. A workaround could be to use a script, that parses
> the URL and passes the relevant information to vlc. But for vlc being able
> to find the file I think I would need to mount a file share... it is
> getting more and more complex.
>
> How can vlc or the internal player work for ISO files?
>
> Kind Regards
>   Jens
>

External players don't work with Storage Groups, as far as I know. So
you'll either have to get rid of your Videos storage group and use the
legacy Videos directory setting or find some way in a script to turn the
myth:// URL into a file path.

Karl
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