On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:10:20 -0800, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:49 -0700, Darren Richards wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. This will work in about 95% of the cases, > > but there are certain dvd's which require special options (like -aid > > 128). But specifying -aid 128 for all dvd's cause most of them to not > > play in dolby digital, even though I also specify ac=hwac3. So I need > > to specify separate options on a per-movie basis. > > > > I suppose I could make the script smart enough to supply different > > arguments based upon the filename. Perhaps I'll try that. > > No problem - what you could do is have a .desc file with the same > basename as the movie. Within that, you could specify the options that > you want to call mplayer with. From your script, you check for .desc > file for options. You would also need to configure mythvideo to > ignore .desc files the same way that .log files are ignored by default. > > Another (and probably smarter) way would be to give them a different > extension, so you could invoke mplayer on those particular files with > the -aid 128 option... The idea (for me, at least) is to avoid file- > specific options as much as possible and group movies into classes. > That's why I use .vob for avi files with AC3, and .avi/.mpg for the > others (with the exception of .dvdrip which is a straight iso that I use > xine for.) > > -I >
Thanks, Ian. Great suggestions. I'll have to whip up a script to do something along those lines. -darren _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
