[mythtv-users] World of pain migrating to "Storage Groups"
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Jul 14 22:30:33 UTC 2010
On 7/14/2010 18:07, Joseph Fry wrote:
> This is what I like about the mythprotocol implementation... if only
> it supported .iso and external players.
Myth protocol supports both of those just fine. It's merely a file
access system. The problem is the DVD handling library, and external
players, do not speak myth protocol. You've got a couple options for
that. You could launch the non-compliant code in such a manner that you
override the default file access routines with ones that support myth
protocol. You could set up some sort of virtual file system through a
kernel module or FUSE application. You could rewrite the external code
such that it supports myth protocol natively.
> Raymond... since you have knowledge of the internal workings of the
> mythprotocol, can you comment on how difficult it would be to create a
> filesystem implementation of it.
The python bindings currently have support for 'file-like' access to
content over myth protocol. It would be fairly simple to write a PyFUSE
application to produce a virtual filesystem to access the content. Such
a program currently exists on the wiki, as well as the contrib directory
in 0.23, and was intended as an alternative to mythlink.pl that did not
need file access.
Note that it is not a simple procedure to make FUSE or any other virtual
file system mountable by a not-root user. As such, no such solution
could ever be considered official, and implemented in MythTV.
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