I thought I would share this hack in case anyone else was looking to do this: I've installed the VLC client on my laptop and was happy with the way the way recordings played via the samba share to my recordings directory. The one thing that was missing for me was a decent description of the hard to decipher file names. Enter the mythweb recordings page which has a beautiful layout of your recordings with descriptions etc. So I thought, why not hack the php code to redirect to local samba file - so here's the process I went through to get that done.
1. on the windows machine I installed the latest version of VideoLan Client (vlc) www.videolan.org 2. on the windows machine I registered a new protocol called vlc. I did this by creating a new key using regedit that points anything with the vlc: prefix to the vlc viewer. Here is the structure of the new key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] [vlc] (Default) = "URL:vlc Protocol" URL Protocol = "" [DefaultIcon] (Default) = "vlc.exe" [shell] [open] [command] (Default) = "c:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" " %L" 3. On the myth side, I edited the recorded_progams.php (buried in a themes directory). I only changed the line that creates the image link(it's buried in an if statement that determines creates a URL for the image if you have that feature turned on) - I figure that way if I still want to download the program I can just click on the description and it will still function as the author intended. So comment out the original image tag and replace it with something like this(you'll need to adjust for the name of your samba share and the directory that your recordings are stored in): echo '<a href="vlc:\\\\Mythtv\\video\\recordings\\'.basename($show->filename).'">' once again, just for reference, Mythtv is the name of my box and my recordings are in /video/recordings/ - so you'll need to adjust accordingly. Anyway, just a little hack I thought I'd throw out there in case anyone else was looking for something similar. I've had success with it on 3 different windows machines so far. I'm not a programmer or anything, so please let me know if there was an easier way to do this that I missed. Kent _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users