There was talk about this very nice feature last year in this thread. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/73859 . but I haven't seen any patch or follow ups. I like the scripts you have put together. I myself put together a script to deal with playing MythVideo files as well. I have a few problems with the way MythVideo works.
1.) I use a sub directory for each movie. 2.) Some movies span more then one file. I used the file extension ".store" and created a script called "playstore.pl" to give me additional control over playing files in mythvideo. I set up MythVideo to only assoicate .store files with playable movies, and used the playstore.pl script as the default "player". I have a .store file for each movie. My .store files hold additional information about the files, and the script can act on that information. For example, here is a sample .store file for example movie "A Cool Movie" name=A_Cool_Movie path=/var/media/movies/A_Cool_Movie aspect=1.7 The playstore.pl script (attached) will play the video files in the 'path' folder in lexigraphical order. So I make sure I name the parts like "A_Cool_Movie.1.avi" and "A_Cool_Movie.2.avi" one little hack I added was to throw in the aspect ratio, if needed. When I was writing all this I was thinking of that original post. Hoping that I could number each backup DVD with 5 movies on it, and the script would prompt for inserting the correct disc. I will now combine our two scripts and ideas. Since .store files have path names, you can imagine specifing a path on a media device. You can also imagine specificing a disc # in the .store file. The script could then prompt for the disc #, and correctly identify the disc when inserted by contents. I should probably just sit down with the C++ code and fix MythVideo to do all this natively..... peace.... -- Anthony Vito [EMAIL PROTECTED]
playstore.pl
Description: Perl program
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