[mythtv-users] Mount samba shares of videos on mythtv box

[Cole Brodine]

On 5/12/06, Xamindar <junkxamindar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cole Brodine wrote:
> > I use the same method that you do to mount external files with Samba.
> > Daniel is right, you just need to change your mythvideo settings to
> > enable "Video List Browses Files".  That's what I did and it works
> > great.  If you don't have this enabled then you have to scan for new
> > files everytime before you run Mythtvideo.
> >
> > On 5/11/06, *Chris Henderson* <jchendo at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jchendo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 5/11/06, *Xamindar* < junkxamindar at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:junkxamindar at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         First of all has anyone done this?
> >
> >         What I am going to try to do is have a cron job that will
> >         check to see
> >         if my desktop is up and then mount the video directory of my
> >         desktop
> >         onto my mythtv box. Then hopefully add a menu option to browse
> >         that
> >         folder and launch a program like xine or mplayer with the
> >         files. It will
> >         also have to check every minute or so and unmount the share if
> my
> >         desktop goes down.
> >
> >         I already made the script and it works pretty good:
> >
> >         #!/bin/bash
> >
> >         ## Set these variables for your system
> >         #STORAGE should be set to where you localy (on mythtv box)
> >         mount your
> >         samba share
> >         STORAGE=/mnt/video/external_videos
> >         # set this one to the ip or hostname of the computer with the
> >         share to
> >         be mounted
> >         COMPUTER2.168.2.22 <http://192.168.2.22>
> >         # Your samba share
> >         SHARE=//192.168.2.22/storage
> >         #########Do not modify the following##########
> >
> >         # Set variables
> >         MOUNTED=`mount | grep -c -m 1 $STORAGE`
> >         UP=`ping -c1 $COMPUTER | grep "[0-9] received" | awk '{print
> $4}'`
> >         #Thanks Seth ;)
> >
> >         # Check if the machine is up AND not mounted, then mount the
> share
> >
> >         if [ "$UP" = "1" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "0" ]; then
> >                 smbmount $SHARE $STORAGE -o guest
> >         fi
> >
> >         # Check if the machine is down AND mounted, then unmount the
> share
> >
> >         if [ "$UP" = "0" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "1" ]; then
> >                 umount -l $STORAGE
> >         fi
> >
> >
> >         Now I just need to figure out a way to have mythtv display a
> >         list of the
> >         folder's contents and allow me to select files to by
> >         played.  I tried
> >         using myth video but it doesn't show any files to be
> >         played.  Also, it
> >         would be useful if I could select a bunch of files and have it
> >         play them
> >         all one after the other for example in a playlist.
> >
> >         Any ideas of what I can add to my mythtv menus?
> >
> >         Thanks.
> >         _
> >
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Sorry i can t help you with this in the slightest, but you might
> >     have helped me figure out a wayto copy new recordings to my main
> >     machine or my laptop so i can watch thenon the trian into work.
> >
> >     thanks
> >
> >     CH
> >
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> I think that worked guys, thanks.  It lists all files, even if they are
> not video files.  Is it supposed to do that?
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Mine does that as well.  I'm not sure if there's a way to change that or
not, but I just moved my non-video files to a different directory or deleted
them.

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