[mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of John Rives
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:18 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files
>
>
> Please forgive me if this has already been covered, in my searching I did
> not find a solution.
>
> Would it be possible / could someone point me in the right direction to
> enable MythVideo to work with offline content? I have many videos archived
> to CD that I would like to include in MythVideo database (browse through
> them), but when selected be prompted to insert the appropriate CD to begin
> watching the video. In addition to this, spanning would be nice - if a
> specific video has two CD's, for it to prompt for CD 1, launch the player,
> then prompt for CD 2, launch the player, the exit back into MythVideo. It
> would be incredible to keep 50-60 files available in mythvideo
> for on-demand
> (live on hard drive), and have others available upon request by entering
> appropriate CD (have it know the filename).

Well, I can't help you with spanning or *quite* the feature list you request
(short of saying 'submit a patch'), but you could create a symlink to your
CD/DVD mount point in your mythvideo storage directory.  It wouldn't prompt
you if the right CD wasn't mounted, but at least you'd be able to maintain
your movies in the mythvideo DB, and if the CD was mounted, play the ones on
that CD.

-JAC