[mythtv] launching movies from mythweb - html question

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Tim Harvey wrote:

> I've made some changes my local mythweb to have it embed links to launch
> movies from the 'MythVideo' page but I can't get it to work cleanly.
> Note that I'm talking about launching movies that are completely
> compatible with the local system's player not necessarily the MythTV
> modules 'nuv' files.
> 
> I cannot get the following links to work correctly:
> 
> <A HREF="file://nas1/Video/Movies/Movie1.avi">Movie1</A>
> 
> The idea here is that the movie is available locally from
> '//nas1/Video/Movies/Movie1.avi' (I can run this from the windows
> cmdline and my movie is launched and plays fine... yes I'm attempting
> this from a windows client).  
> 
> Is this some security issue regarding not being able to launch local
> files from a browser?
> 
> Alternatively If I do the following:
> 
> <a href="myprog: \\nas1/Videos/Movies/Movie1.avi">Movie1</A>
> 
> and create the proper registry keys to treat 'myprog' as a protocol that
> launches my player passing the parameter it works fine.  However, I
> think it's a lousy solution to have to hack the registry to create a
> custom protocol for this.
> 
> Am I missing something simple here?  If anyone can provide me with a
> more elegant solution to launching the file locally without creating an
> http transfer I will gladly post a patch for mythweb that does so.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim

I think you're missing a "/" from your link.  Try:

file:///nas1/Videos/Movies/Moview1.avi
        ^
        |
     note the extra '/'

-JAC