[mythtv-users] DVD Bookmark support?

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Wed Jan 15 19:38:12 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 14:31:24 Stephen P. Villano wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 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's already how it works, the bookmark is saved centrally (all types of 
bookmark) and you can resume playback from any frontend. Richard's point was 
that the backend isn't involved in the reading or saving of the bookmark so 
doesn't need patching.
-- 
Stuart Morgan
MythTV


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