Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv DVD changer integration

[Scott Kirkpatrick]

This is the original reason I started looking at MythTV.  I have a Sony DVP-CX985V 400 disc changer (I've still got my old 200 disc model that I grew out of) and I hate the UI.  I wanted a better method of cateloging and finding my DVD's.  The higher end Sony 700ES has a serial port that you can use to control it and supposedly, you get instantaneous control, not this stupid thing where when you select a DVD, it plays all the nonsense at the beginning not allowing you to stop it and go to the menu.  I was reading another list somewhere where they found that the internals of the 700ES was the same as the 985, in fact they upgraded the 985's firmware with the version that went in the 700ES and got almost all of the 700ES features.  I cracked my case and I think I see where the serial port would interface to but I haven't been able to Google any hardware hacks for it.  When I get a chance, I'll trace the signals on that connector and see if it is the serial port. With my current setup, the DVD changer and the digitial cable receiver feed into an A/V receiver.  The problem is that I don't want to have to switch the A/V receiver's inputs to select a DVD.  I'd like to run the DVD into a PVR-150's SVIDEO input and the digital receiver into another SVIDEO input and let MythTV be the A/V receiver.  Not only will this allow me to not have to mess with the feeds but also allows a 2nd front-end to access the DVD changer, making the DVD changer not a lot different than the video library in MythTV (although only one FE can control it at a time). I was thinking more along the lines of modifying the video database to store the DVD location (multiple changers also?) and modify MythVideo for the new capability.  This is, of course, what I'd like to do, I'm just not sure how long it will take me to get there :) Scott Ben Norling wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to use the video section of mythtv to manage my dvd collection in my 400 disc dvd changer. I also want the myth system to control the dvd changer. Sounds neat; what DVD changer do you have? I've thought about this myself. I have a 400 disc sony dvd changer. What I planned was this: Put text files in the video section of the hard drive on the myth system containing the disc number of the movie. When the movie is selected instead of running mplayer, a program will launch which sends ir codes to the dvd player if it's a DVD movie. I do something similar. For mythvideo and mythdvd I have a small bash script that runs instead of xine/mplayer directly. It looks at the extention of the file it was passed to do different things: play a file in mplayer or xine, play a list of files, play an entire dir. You could easily do something like that and have it do "something" if it sees "some cool movie.changer" for instance. Otherwise it will launch mplayer with the name of the file. I'd also like a program that would intercept IR codes from the remote and translate them and re-send them to the DVD player so I can use the myth remote for the dvd changer. I'm not sure what codes you need to intercept/send: pause/rew/ff/left/right/up/down/select/menu/stop? Those are pretty much the codes I would want to intercept. The goal here being that you use the myth remote to control the dvd player much the same way as you would the movies played from files. All a part of the wife-proofing effort of my system. I'm sure you can do this pretty easily from what I've done with LIRC. My system includes a receiver and blaster and you could hook them together with a shell script or C program. But this brings up another question: where does the video/audio from this thing go? into a video/audio-in in the computer? (not really worth it unless you want to record it; it won't look as good) or directly into the tv and you need to have the tv switch inputs when the changer plays? (sounds more likely; but are you going to IR blast the TV to switch back and forth?) Yes, the blaster would be switching the input on a AV receiver when switching to a DVD movie versus a file movie. When you're done watching the movie, you hit the exit button on the remote (Or whatever) and the ir-blaster stops the dvd player and switches the receiver back to the myth input and exits from the "special" program. The whole goal of all of this is to have as seamless an integration as possible. By the way, what IR blaster are you using? Sounds interesting; I may want to setup the same thing. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

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