[mythtv-users] MythVideo as a Simple File Browser Woes

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sat Jan 23 03:39:06 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:55:07PM -0500, mikp wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:10:36 -0800
> Tanthrix The Great <tanthrix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > For about 4 years now, I've been using MythVideo as a simple file browser
> > with all the past major versions. No meta data, no pretty posters, just a
> > quick way to play smb-mounted videos. Now that I've upgraded to 0.22-fixes,
> > I've got a few issues that I haven't been able to figure out:
> > 
> ................snipped....................
> 
> > 3) Despite having "Video tree remembers last selected position" checked in
> > the mythvideo options, it does not remember which folder I was browsing in
> > last when I exit out and come back in.
> > 
> > As near as I can tell, I have fiddled with all the appropriate MythVideo
> > settings to no avail. Does anyone have any thoughts on what I can do about
> > these issues, if anything? Would upgrading to trunk fix any of these
> > problems?
> 
> I just found Ticket #7425: 0001-Fixes-7425.-Update-tree-position-remmeber-functiona.patch (20 Jan 2010).
> 
> This fixes the "Video tree remembers last selected position". I tried it today and it works.
> I really missed that from  the prior mythtv version.
> 
> It would be really nice if this could be expanded to remember the last selected position in all the sub-folders too.

    Yup. This a VERY handy sort of feature. It is very nice in terms of WAF.
Although I suspect you won't see it unless you implement it yourself or hack
some sort of equivalent.

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