[mythtv-users] DVD Bookmark support?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/15/14, 2:25 PM, Richard Hulme wrote:
> 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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Not really. If one bookmarked at the backend, one turns the system more
toward a multi-room DVR, where one can bookmark, pause and resume from
bookmark in another room.
That would be a feature that would quite well compete with current
offerings, such as the FIOS DVR system.
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