I have approx. 300 DVDs and counting, and while I've ripped many of them to Divx/Xvid for playback on my Myth box, I don't want to/don't have the time and HD space to archive them all. I had an idea of adding them to the MythVideo database so that when we are browsing for a movie to watch instead of having to look through the DVDs AND browse MythVideo we could just look in one place. I thought it would also be nice to see descriptions/etc since I keep my discs in jackets without the covers/cases.
I found a way to almost do what I wanted in this thread on the MythTV mailing list:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... ers/143039
To summarize, you create blank files with the ".dvd" extension and symlink them to this executable script :
Code:
#!/bin/bash
MEDIA_TYPE=$1
FILE_NAME=$2
# Find the name of the disc
case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in
DVD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .dvd`
;;
CD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .cd`
;;
VCD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .vcd`
;;
esac
# Prompt the user to insert the disc
xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \
-e prompt "Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}:" "${DISC_NAME}"
# Play the disc
case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in
DVD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan dvd
;;
CD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq /mnt/cd
;;
VCD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan vcd
;;
esac
MEDIA_TYPE=$1
FILE_NAME=$2
# Find the name of the disc
case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in
DVD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .dvd`
;;
CD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .cd`
;;
VCD)
DISC_NAME=`basename "$FILE_NAME" .vcd`
;;
esac
# Prompt the user to insert the disc
xterm -bg NavyBlue -fg White +sb -fs 18 -geometry 40x6 \
-e prompt "Please insert ${MEDIA_TYPE}:" "${DISC_NAME}"
# Play the disc
case "${MEDIA_TYPE}" in
DVD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan dvd
;;
CD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq /mnt/cd
;;
VCD)
xine --no-splash --auto-play=fhq --auto-scan vcd
;;
esac
The "prompt" command in line 21 is this script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
MESSAGE=$1
MESSAGE2=$2
echo "${MESSAGE}"
echo
echo "${MESSAGE2}"
## Uncomment the for loop for a standard 80x24 terminal or use the
## xterm command line to customize the display for 5 or 6 lines
#for line in `seq 1 20`; do
echo
#done
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue."
MESSAGE=$1
MESSAGE2=$2
echo "${MESSAGE}"
echo
echo "${MESSAGE2}"
## Uncomment the for loop for a standard 80x24 terminal or use the
## xterm command line to customize the display for 5 or 6 lines
#for line in `seq 1 20`; do
echo
#done
read -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue."
You then have to create a new file type in your video settings for the "dvd" extension, uncheck "Use default player" and make the command
bash %s DVD %s
Now when you open one of your "dvd" files an xterm window pops up telling you to insert the disc. There are a couple of modifications I'd like to make so this works more to my liking. My issues are:
1. I keep all of my movies on a Windows computer on my network, and AFAIK I cannot symlink these files to the script across machines. (For the time being I've created a new directory on the Myth box for the dvd files so that it will work, but I'd like to keep all of the movies together for browsing.)
2. Since I have so many movies, I'd like to number them and have the prompt tell you what disc# to insert.
3. The xterm window does not fit well with the rest of the MythTV UI, so if I could figure out a way to get a prompt that does that would be ideal.
Further down in that thread another user has a perl script he uses to play videos that accounts for his abnormal directory structure. He creates files with the movie name, pathname and aspect ratio which get read by the script and passed to mplayer. I would like to combine these two methods into one, creating files with a "dvd" extension that contain one line e.g.
Disc=162
The disc number gets read by the script and is included in the prompt so that when I select a movie I will know where to look for it. This will be my first attempt at perl (only done VB programming in the past, linux newbie) but I'm going to try to figure it out (along with whatever assistance anyone here can give me
)
The questions I have as I begin are:
If I do this with perl, can I make the command for the "dvd" extension my perl script to avoid the issue of not being able to symlink across machines?
How would I go about getting a prompt/pop-up that matches the Myth UI?
Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can give me.
