[mythtv-users] Success with DVD vob rips on an external drive?

[Garth Benedict]

Well, no one responded on this, but I went ahead and got a 250G IOMega USB
drive yesterday (100 bucks at CompUSA).

Can vobs play? Yes
Out of the box? No, vfat limits file size.
<Plug in drive>
dmesg
<check partition (sda1 for me)>
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
mkdir /mnt/external
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external
cp /myth/video/*vob /mnt/external
ln -sf /mnt/external/*vob /myth/video

Since I use gallery/folder view in mythvideo, I use symlinks.  A little up
keep when I add a new video but really no problem.

No stuttering or anything on palyback using xine.  Jumps feel instant.

Someday I will try http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm for
windows.


On 3/23/06, Garth Benedict <shrkbait at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am looking to add an external drive to house my DVD vobs.  The list
> archive has a lot of speculation talk of external drives working, but
> nothing all that definitive.  I already have USB and firewire connections
> working, so I am not worried about drivers and such.
>
> Does anyone have an external hard drive with 100% success playing vobs
> from it?
>
> Firewire or USB2?
>
> Did you have to reformat the drive to a separate file system due to the
> large file size?
>
> Thanks,
> Garth
>
>
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