[mythtv-users] How to update video list when copying over a new video?

[George Nassas]

> If you want to use external players, you'll have to use the old local-mount-based video setup

No, you'll have to wrap your external player in a trivial shell script which strips off the myth junk to get the relative path and prepends something to place that path in your filesystem.

I suspect people's storage groups have paths like /disk1/videos and /disk2/videos so prepending /disk*/videos to the output of echo URL | cut -f4- -d/ which is basically a one-liner.

> external player support is likely to be entirely removed for 0.26 (as last I heard, anyway)

That would be unfortunate as the internal player does badly in some situations.

- George