[mythtv-users] Announcement: Removable media management script for mythvideo

Josu Lazkano josu.lazkano at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 10:46:23 UTC 2010


Is possible to use it to view photos?

Thanks for all!

2010/4/23 Roy Lofthouse <lofty69 at gmail.com>:
> On 23 April 2010 07:52, Pest789 <pest789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just wanted to announce the availability of a python script I wrote:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/mythadder/
>>
>> It's launched by a udev rule any time a removable disk is connected and
>> mounted.  It scans the disk (quickly) for a configurable list of various
>> video file types.  Those it finds, it inserts into the mythvideo mysql
>> table.
>>
>> Mythvideo recognizes them and makes them available to play.  Also, when you
>> update the metadata, download artwork, set parental level, etc, all those
>> changes are kept in a separate table when the disk is removed.
>>
>> The disks are tracked by partition uuid and the files are tracked by inode
>> number, so you can move the files around on the disk and rename them, and
>> the script will always reattach the correct metadata to mythvideo the next
>> time it's connected.  It won't recognize the same file if you later move it
>> to a different drive, however.
>>
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>
> Nice feature, this is something that has been missing from myth for me
> and I'll be giving this a go soon :)
>
> Thanks
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