[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend will not play BD folder

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:24:50 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>> >stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>> >
>> >> My mother's Mythbuntu 16.04 box has now got a folder with a BD image
>> >> in its videos storage group.  I can make it play for her using
>> >> mythavtest:
>> >>
>> >> mythavtest /mnt/sda4/videos/Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\ John\ Del\
>> >> Carlo\ 2010/
>> >>
>> >> But when I try to play it using mythfrontend, nothing happens.  I have
>> >> tried using Play on the folder, and using "I" then "Play folder" and
>> >> any other variants I could find.  Nothing works - mythfrontend does
>> >> not even attempt to play it, and there is nothing at all in the log
>> >> file.  Is seems that it does not recognise that it should even try to
>> >> play the folder, so I am wondering if there is some option somewhere
>> >> that I need to set to make it see BD and DVD folders as playable. Does
>> >> anyone have any ideas?  Does playing of BD and DVD folders work for
>> >> anyone?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# mythutil --version
>> >> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>> >> MythTV Version : v29.0-41-g0cf1422
>> >> MythTV Branch : fixes/29
>> >> Network Protocol : 91
>> >> Library API : 29.20170212-1
>> >> QT Version : 5.5.1
>> >> Options compiled in:
>> >>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>> >> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
>> >> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
>> >> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton
>> >> using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec
>> >> using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2
>> >> using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl using_opengl_video
>> >> using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus
>> >> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
>> >> using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>> >> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
>> >> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
>> >> using_libxml2 using_libmp3lame
>> >>
>> >
>> >Are you running mythfrontend as root as in the example above?
>> Permissions
>> >on file and folder not allowing the mythfrontend user to play it?
>> >
>> >ps auwwxf|grep mythfrontend | awk '{print $1}'
>> >
>> >run mythavtest on that same file when logged in as that user and see what
>> >you get.
>> >
>> >-Greg
>>
>> Mythfrontend and mythavtest are both running from the mythtv frontend
>> user (rosemary).  The permissions on the BD directory are full access
>> for everyone:
>>
>> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# ll -d Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\
>> John\ Del\ Carlo\ 2010
>> drwxrwxrwx 5 rosemary mythtv 24 Apr  9  2017 Donizetti - Don Pasquale
>> - John Del Carlo 2010/
>>
>
> Just stabbing in the dark, but maybe because there is no file extension.
> I have never tried to play something without an extension before.
>

Damn - I must have drank too much that night :)  I just re-read and see it
was for a folder versus a file.

Is it an unencrypted BluRay rip?
Did you open the disc and dd (or some Windows / Mac equivalent) the entire
thing to make a folder structure?
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