[mythtv-users] DVD Bookmark support?

[Richard Hulme]

Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Richard Hulme <peper03 at yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> On 25/12/13 19:19, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok, bookmarks for VIDEO_TS directories were not explicitly disabled
>and
>> there is/was no bug in libdvdread.
>>
>> The problem was simply that DVD bookmarks are stored in the database
>using
>> the DVD's serial number as the key.  libdvdread does not return a
>serial
>> number for directories as there *is* no serial number.
>>
>> If there's no serial number, we don't try to store a bookmark (which
>is
>> probably the 'disabled for directories' bit).
>>
>> Anyway, I added some code to detect that case and generate a serial
>number
>> by calculating the CRC of one of the files.  That should be good
>enough.
>>
>> If you want to try it, either sync to the latest master or try
>applying:
>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/70143d3.patch
>>
>> I haven't tried it on 0.27, but I guess it would work.
>>
>> Richard.
>
>Great!  That patch appears to at least cleanly apply to the current
>0.27 version I'm using under Gentoo.  I'll give it a try.  I'm
>assuming that patch would be needed on both the frontend and backend?
>
>Thanks!
>Tom
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Hi,

The backend isn't involved in playback so it's enough just to update the frontend.

Richard
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