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== Window manager NOT required ==
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The article states this:
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''Please note that if you use MythVideo to launch external players, you must have a window manager configured and running so that window focus can change from MythFrontend to the media player''
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This is not the case: I don't run a window manager on the display Myth is running on and use mplayer via mythvideo. MPlayer happily runs fullscreen covering mythfrontend, lirc and keyboard focus move to it and back to mythfrontend when mplayer exits.
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(keyboard focus depends on where the mouse pointer is as I run dual-head)

Revision as of 13:31, 16 January 2007

I'm curious about having the video database automatically update itself. I don't currently have a usable TV encoding card and thus am only using the frontend as an easy interface to view videos. I recently configured an RSS client to automatically download videos as they become available and would like to not have to go out to the video manager to update the database. I looked at the source and there seems to be a fairly self contained VideoScanner class which looks like it scans for files and then updates the database. I'm curious to know what issues I might run into trying to run this function from a cron job or automatically run it every so often while in the Video Gallery screen. I'll look into it a bit more but if anyone has any suggestions or reasons why this wouldn't work well please let me know.

Thanks, Blake junk@thenme.net

Window manager NOT required

The article states this:

Please note that if you use MythVideo to launch external players, you must have a window manager configured and running so that window focus can change from MythFrontend to the media player

This is not the case: I don't run a window manager on the display Myth is running on and use mplayer via mythvideo. MPlayer happily runs fullscreen covering mythfrontend, lirc and keyboard focus move to it and back to mythfrontend when mplayer exits. (keyboard focus depends on where the mouse pointer is as I run dual-head)