[mythtv-users] Adding to Media Library manually?
David Blevins
david.blevins at visi.com
Mon Sep 26 00:47:02 UTC 2005
On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> David Blevins wrote:
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>> On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>> David Blevins wrote:
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>>>> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Robert Johnston wrote:
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>>>>> On 23/09/05, David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I'm having a heck of a time ripping with MythDVD. No
>>>>>> worries as I
>>>>>> really don't care to if I can avoid it. I have a ton of dvds
>>>>>> already
>>>>>> ripped and burnt and simply want to copy a few of them to disk
>>>>>> now
>>>>>> and then for easy access via the Media Library. Not afraid of
>>>>>> showing stuff in the mythconverg db via perl fun to do this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any pointers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Copy the files into the Video folder (That MythVideo is looking
>>>>> at),
>>>>> and go into "Setup -> Video Manager" on the Frontend, which will
>>>>> automatically discover all the new files you've just added. Then
>>>>> scroll to each one, press the "Menu" key (M, usually) and choose
>>>>> "Search IMDB" to get all the metadata for the video.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't seem that MythVideo can handle whole DVDs in the
>>>> video dir. At least when I copied one over and pulled up the
>>>> Video Manager it listed each file in the VIDEO_TS directory
>>>> individually. None of them were playable either.
>>>>
>>>> I hunted down the info needed to get the transcode daemon
>>>> running and ripped a small title of a DVD at "perfect"
>>>> quality. I ended up with a single .vob file, went to Video
>>>> Manager to get it recognize, browsed over to MythVideo and ...
>>>> nothing, doesn't play.
>>>>
>>>> I must be missing something.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Check your player command-line for the .VOB extension and make
>>> sure it works outside of Myth since that's really what is
>>> happening (just launching an external viewer).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Aha. Is there any support for filling that info in automatically
>> or is it pretty standard to have to manually fill in the command
>> line arg to play each thing in the video manager's list?
>>
>
> You need to configure the player for each particular extension type
> you want to play. You can also optionally have a special command-
> line for each video if you have a need for it.
>
(for the archives)
I checked and .vob is setup as using the default player. So I
checked out the command for playing and it looks like the path to
mplayer is wrong. (running a knoppmyth box) So I symlinked it:
ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer
Then I got:
========================================================================
==
vo: X11 running at 720x480 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" =>
local display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/
video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -
vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
I'm using the TV-OUT on my PVR 350, so I can see why it didn't work.
/usr/local/bin/mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo x11 %s
And it did work.
-David
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