Hi,
I managed to fix the use of an external player when using Storage Groups.
The problem is that when I play a movie, what is passed to the player is
something like this:
myth://vid...@192.168.254.1:6543/videos3/Australia/Australia.avi
This mean that Storage Groups create a relative address, while
the old method just used the full address.
Well, all my movies are in /home/videos:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
[cascavel:/home/videos] dir
total 64
drwxr-xr-x. 4 roma 12288 2010-05-02 04:26 .
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root 4096 2010-04-29 05:42 ..
-r--r--r--. 1 roma 133 2006-05-02 08:56 .htaccess
drwxrwxr-x. 8 roma 4096 2010-04-29 23:45 MythVideo
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 roma 22 2010-05-01 10:12 series -> ../../mnt/dados/series
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 roma 22 2010-05-01 10:13 videos -> ../../mnt/dados/videos
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 roma 23 2010-05-01 10:12 videos2 ->
../../mnt/dados/videos2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 roma 23 2010-05-01 10:12 videos3 ->
../../mnt/dados2/videos
drwxr-xr-x. 9 roma 4096 2010-04-29 05:48 videosCG
Therefore, I just wrote an script (mythplayer) to parse and fix the movie
name:
--------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# -zoom goes to the TV, -fs to the screen
foo="$1"
file=${foo##"myth://vid...@192.168.254.1:6543"}
/home/roma/bin/mplayertv /home/videos/"$file" -fs -ontop -quiet -vo xv -ao
alsa:device=hw=0.0
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I used another script (mplayertv), which calls mplayer, but one can
use /usr/bin/mplayer directly just fine.
To know what is passed in someone else's case, just call mythfrontend
form a terminal and echo the first parameter in the script above,
and make the appropriate changes:
echo "$foo"
Of course myth has to be set to call the script and not the Internal player.
I do that by changing the File Type for avi in the Video Settings Setup.
On a frontend running on another computer, I just have in /home/videos
the following:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[naja:/home/videos] dir
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 6 roma 4096 2010-05-02 09:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root 4096 2010-04-30 11:56 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 roma 133 2006-05-02 08:56 .htaccess
drwxrwxr-x 8 roma 4096 2010-04-30 20:04 MythVideo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roma 36 2010-05-02 09:24 series ->
/net/cascavel.local/mnt/dados/series
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roma 36 2010-05-02 09:20 videos ->
/net/cascavel.local/mnt/dados/videos
drwxr-xr-x 546 roma 20480 2010-05-01 09:47 videos1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roma 37 2010-05-02 09:33 videos2 ->
/net/cascavel.local/mnt/dados/videos2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roma 37 2010-05-01 11:12 videos3 ->
/net/cascavel.local/mnt/dados2/videos
lrwxrwxrwx 1 roma 22 2010-05-01 10:15 videos4 -> ../../mnt/dados/videos
drwxr-xr-x 7 roma 4096 2007-04-27 19:26 videos5
drwxr-xr-x 8 roma 4096 2007-09-11 07:56 videosCG
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Why developers didn't do that directly in mythtv is a mystery to me.
Maybe myth developers are trying to make people switch to the Internal
player, I guess ...
This is why a love open software. There is always a way out.
--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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