[mythtv-users] How to make the image gallery show MTS files?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Feb 19 19:50:11 UTC 2013


On 02/19/2013 02:40 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> OK, so I just went and took a look. It appears to be hard coded. In
> galleryutil.cpp
>
> QStringList GalleryUtil::GetMovieFilter(void)
> {
>      QStringList filt;
>      filt.push_back("*.avi");
>      filt.push_back("*.bin");
>      filt.push_back("*.iso");
>      filt.push_back("*.img");
>      filt.push_back("*.mpg");
>      filt.push_back("*.mp4");
>      filt.push_back("*.mpeg");
>      filt.push_back("*.mov");
>      filt.push_back("*.wmv");
>      filt.push_back("*.3gp");
>      filt.push_back("*.wmv");
>      filt.push_back("*.flv");
>      return filt;
> }
>
>
> So, If you are compiling your own myth from source, this is where you
> would add it. If you are not, then you are out of luck...
>
> UNLESS...warning: here comes a REALLY BIG hack. You could always pick
> one of those extensions you don't need, and then do a hex edit of the
> executable to replace it with *.mts

Why not just name the file using one of the known extensions?  It seems 
the least of all evils, especially since--on any proper OS, including 
GNU/Linux--file extension is meaningless (basically just being  a carry 
over from a certain incapable OS that many are used to).

Mike


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