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This script has not yet undergone diligent testing. Try running with
 
This script has not yet undergone diligent testing. Try running with

Revision as of 20:42, 3 May 2013


Author Lincoln Stein
Description This script maps TV recordings on a local or remote MythTV backend to a human-readable directory structure on the local machine.
Supports Version25.png  Version26.png 


mythtvfs-perl

This is a FUSE filesystem for MythTV (www.mythtv.org) which mounts the recordings on a Mythtv backend as files and directories on the same or different machine. It is distinguished from Mythtvfs and Mythfs.py in that it works via the Myth 0.25 REST API. Hence the recordings do not need to be on a shared NFS-mounted disk, nor does the Myth database need to be accessible from the client.

Installation

Run the following commands from within the top-level directory of this distribution:

$ git clone git://github.com/lstein/mythfs-perl.git
$ cd mythfs-perl
$ ./Build.PL
$ ./Build test
$ sudo ./Build install

If you get messages about missing dependencies, run:

$ ./Build installdeps

and then "sudo ./Build install".

Usage

To mount the recordings contained on the master backend "MyHost" onto a local filesystem named "/tmp/mythfs" use this command:

$ mythfs.pl MyHost /tmp/mythfs

The script will fork into the background and should be stopped with fusermount. The mounted /tmp/mythfs directory will contain a series of human-readable recordings organized by title (directory) and subtitle (file). In the case that there is no subtitle, then the recording file will be placed into the top level of the directory.

To unmount:

$ fusermount -u /tmp/mythfs

Note do NOT try to kill the mythfs.pl process. This will only cause a hung filesystem that needs to be unmounted with fusermount.

There are a number of options that you can pass to mythfs.pl, the most useful of which is "-o allow_other". If this is present, then others on the system (including root) can see the mounted filesystem. Call with the -h option for more help.

Understanding the Directory Layout

Recordings that are part of a series usually have a title (the series name) and subtitle (the episode name). Such recordings are displayed using a two-tier directory structure in which the top-level directory is the series name, and the contents are a series of recorded episodes.

For recordings that do not have a subtitle, typically one-off movie showings, the recording is placed at the top level.

In all cases, the time the recorded was started is attached to the filename, along with an extension indicating the recording type (.mpg or .nuv). The file create and modification times correspond to the recording start time. For directories, the times are set to the most recent recording contained within the directgory.

Here is an example directory listing:

 % <b>ls -lR  /tmp/mythfs</b>
 total 35
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 12298756208 Dec 30 00:00 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 2012-12-30-00:00.mpg
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 14172577964 Dec 25 16:00 A Heartland Christmas 2012-12-25-16:00.mpg
 dr-xr-xr-x 1 lstein lstein           5 Mar 11 03:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
 dr-xr-xr-x 1 lstein lstein           8 May  2 00:00 American Dad
 ...

 /home/lstein/Myth/Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
 total 3
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 647625408 Dec 25 15:30 Back for Christmas 2012-12-25-15:30.mpg
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 647090360 Dec  7 00:00 Dead Weight 2012-12-07-00:00.mpg
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 660841056 Mar 11 03:00 Rose Garden 2013-03-11-03:00.mpg
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 647524452 Dec 25 00:00 Santa Claus and the 10th Ave. Kid 2012-12-25-00:00.mpg
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 649819932 Dec 27 00:00 The Contest of Aaron Gold 2012-12-27-00:00.mpg

 /home/lstein/Myth/American Dad:
 total 4
 -r--r--r-- 1 lstein lstein 3512038152 Apr 24 00:00 Flirting With Disaster 2013-04-24-00:00.mpg

Troubleshooting

Your Perl must have been compiled with IThreads in order for this script to work. To check if this is the case. you may run:

 $ perl -V | grep useithreads
   useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define


This script has not yet undergone diligent testing. Try running with the -debug flag to see where the problems are occurring and report issues to https://github.com/lstein/mythfs-perl.

Author

Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com> 3 May 2013