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Author:  bloorie [ Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:30 am ]
Post subject:  playing mpegs and avi's through cdrom drive
hi folks, i've searched this and other forums but still havent managed to find my answer. i'm a bit of a linux newb so please be patient. I'm using knoppmyth at the moment.

I know I can play avi's and mpegs if they are sitting in the right directory, but i have all mine sitting on dvd's as data files and just want to insert the disk and choose my file then start playing it. does anyone have a setup like this? i tried pointing the movie collection toward the cdrom but it doesn't detect any files.

also, dvd's were jumbled up playing through mplayer so i installed xine and it just goes to the xine logo and doesn't bother loading up the DVD. I'm not so bothered about that though because I would rather play the avi files than DVD's as I have more avi's to play.

thanks in advance
bloorie :)
Author:  Xsecrets [ Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:38 am ]
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have you tried the mpeg4 cd option in the knoppmyth submenu? doesn't give you a list but will play files from cd.
Author:  bloorie [ Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:38 am ]
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thanks for a speedy reply.

If I click that button, I see it highlights but then the screen doesn't change. almost like it's not connected.

I've checked the cdrom setup against some other posts and it looks like this:

root@moshpit:/dev# ls -al /dev/dvd /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 8 May 25 15:18 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 8 May 25 15:18 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 May 7 2004 /dev/hdc
root@moshpit:/dev#

b.
Author:  bloorie [ Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:07 pm ]
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*bump*

any help would be appreciated. Still haven't resolved this.

Cheers
Bloorie :)
Author:  cesman [ Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:08 pm ]
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Run mythfrontend from an xterm and try the option. After it doesn't work, quit myth. What does the xterm say?
Author:  bloorie [ Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:41 pm ]
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aargh. :? i've run out of space again. I've been deleting the /var/log/mythtv but now there's nothing left to delete and it wont load. Anyone got any quick suggestions on what to delete? I've been using a couple of commands to snoop around but connot see anything I might be allowed to delete. It wont run the GUI interface until i've cleared room.

b.

fyi: Any other newbs following this thread, here's the commands I've been using:

use:
df
to show how much space you have on partitions.
du - sk *
shows how big each directory and file is below the dir you are in.
Author:  cesman [ Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:51 pm ]
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Code:
cd /var/log
ls -al
rm -fr bigbottomfile
You probably want to reboot afterwards and start reading the log files. There are filling for a reason...
Author:  bloorie [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:57 am ]
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that was very helpful. thanks

OK, we've rebooted, I exit mythtv. ran mythfrontend from the command line and attempted to use the MPEG4 button again. The light goes on in the CDROM but nothing happens.

I Exit and can see more info has gone past on the xterm but I cannot make the text out on my CRT. (Rubbish I know).

To save me carting a monitor in there. Can I export this via a puTTy session? I ftp'd mythbackend.log up to my windows machine but it doesn't seem to contain anything of interest. is there a frontend log file?

ta
bloorie :)


My mythbackend.log:

Quote:
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
2005-06-10 17:50:27.618 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
2005-06-10 17:50:27.918 New DB connection, total: 2
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
2005-06-10 17:50:28.392 New DB connection, total: 3
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
2005-06-10 17:50:29.398 New DB scheduler connection
2005-06-10 17:50:29.405 mythbackend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-06-10 17:50:29.442 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-06-10 17:50:31.405 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2005-06-10 17:50:31.676 Scheduled 16 items in 0.3 = 0.18 match + 0.09 place
2005-06-10 17:50:31.685 Seem to be woken up by USER
2005-06-10 18:38:17.960 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-06-10 18:38:17.965 adding: moshpit as a client (events: 0)
2005-06-10 18:38:18.026 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-06-10 18:38:18.030 adding: moshpit as a client (events: 1)
2005-06-10 18:42:04.272 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-06-10 18:42:04.276 adding: moshpit as a client (events: 0)
2005-06-10 18:42:04.308 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-06-10 18:42:04.311 adding: moshpit as a client (events: 1)
Author:  Xsecrets [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:19 pm ]
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probably the easiest thing to do if you have a mouse is ctrl+rtclick on the xterm and choose a big font. then run the frontend.
Author:  cesman [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:40 pm ]
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No, you cannot export using putty. I stated nothing about the backend log. Please reread what I stated.
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