[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[buzz]

In the mythtv-setup.exe -> 'storage directories'  area, setting a path
configured like c:/spool/  (using forward slashes) works, and stops the tool
from complaining that "path does not exist" when you exit.    For that
matter entering \\192.168.0.X\tmp <file://192.168.0.x/tmp> didn't cause it
to complain (samba server)  but   \\127.0.0.1\tmp <file://127.0.0.1/tmp> did
cause it to complain, even tho the windows PC is sharing a /tmp.

I also tried using a msys "mount" such as /home/mythv/video (mounted to a
folder c:/spool through the /etc/fstab) doesn't seem to work, at least not
in mythtv-setup, it may work elsewhere if the application is run from inside
msys, I can't say.

FYI - Andrei,
  I have the 3 latest patches, and and am compiling now. I will let u know
how it goes.

Buzz.


On Dec 30, 2007 7:49 AM, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:

>  On Dec 29, 2007 3:10 PM, Andrei Tanas <andrei at tanas.ca> wrote:
>
> > > Speaking of which: does somebody want to take a look at how Myth
> > > handles file paths? If under Linux a network share can be mounted so
> > > it's accessible using the same path (like /home/mythtv/videos), it's
> > > not possible to do so with Windows. This kind of messes things up,
> > > since MythVideo shares the same configurations between all machines in
> > > one system.
> > > Also, ':' is being treated as a separator, which makes it impossible
> > to
> > > use drive letters (which, coincidentally, is needed to use network
> > > shares).
> > >
> > > Network shares can use UNC paths (\\servername\share) rather than
> > drive
> > > letters.
> >
> > Ugh, I know that, but it doesn't make it possible to map a directory on
> > a
> > Linux server and on Windows frontend so it's accessible to applications
> > on
> > both systems using exactly the same path.
>
>
> Well, given that Windows has no correlation to UNIX paths, there isn't any
> option either way that will provide that.  Instead, a Windows frontend will
> have to have it's own paths to each folder which is really no problem as
> Myth already supports different paths to the same files AFAIK from frontend
> applications and if not, we will simply need some kind of table mapping a
> UNC path or drive letter to a UNIX path for translation.  As far as
> non-frontend plugins go, the Myth streaming should work just fine as is
> shown by the other Windows based frontends.
>
> Kevin
>
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