Playing DVD images on NMT through GB-PVR

[arkennedy75]

OK, so I followed part 3 of the dummies and am now connecting through 'gbpvr' not network browser. And low and behold, I can play .dvd files throught GBPVR (i see where Jaggy was going in a previous post)!!!! Woo hoo! I take it you can't connect through 'network browser' and mount another drive to play DVD's. Out of curiosity, are there other advantages to not using 'network browser'? You mentioned it was a 'pain' earlier.

Once again, thank you for helping me.

[mvallevand]

It's only a pain because of the number of keystrokes, and I have lots of share to navigate on top of that. As you saw, once you can do it by the Network Browser step III is straight forward. For me the big advantage is if everyone uses Option 1 it is easier for the community to help and it reduces the number of questions I have to ask for doing things like configuring a DVD (which I consider the hardest part of the install).

Now you can try Jaggy's index.htm too.

Martin

[agerdin]

martin, I have for a long time avoided trying to get .iso files playing through mvpmcx2. Much since I do not really understand how it works. I understand that there are some mounting to do but all examples assumes all dvds (iso) in the same place?

I have all my movies on my WHS (Gerdin-server) in a directory structure:

Code:

D:\shares\Videos\Action and Adventure
D:\shares\Videos\Drama
D:\shares\Videos\Cartoon
etc.

This drive is then shared and is mapped on my HTPC computer as network drives:

Code:

Z:\Action and Adventure
Z:\Drama
Z:\Cartoon
etc.

Each directory contains a mix of avi, mpg, mkv and iso.

The configuration In GBPVR (config.xml) is set up as follows:

Code:

<VideoLibraryDirectory>Movies~\\Gerdin-server\Videos|</VideoLibraryDirectory>

With my current setup, how would i configure gbpvr.cgi? Will it even be possible to play iso files as I would with avi files. Or am I missing something?

Hoping for some help or pointers,

Thanks

\\Agerdin

[mvallevand]

First just so you know sub didn't add DVD playback support to the NMT yet so when it goes out of beta I won't be supporting GBPVR questions like this, hopefully others in the community will step up.

To get it to work ISO and VIDEO_TS folders must be in unique folders, they can't be mixed with avi and standard formats. This following is what I expect you will need in the cgi file. If I remember you turned off longfile name support I am not sure if that will be an issue or not.

Code:

mkdir /mnt/\\\\Gerdin-server\\Videos

mount -t cifs //IP of Gerdin-server/Videos /mnt/\\\\Gerdin-server\\Videos -o username=...,password=...,ro

In your scenario the Z: is misleading since the server won't be using that, it uses the config.xml syntax.

Martin

[agerdin]

martin,

Thanks for the support and explaining how it would work with a WHS setup. I got it to work, but unfortunately I feel that I will not be able to use it as my entire movie library containes mixed formats. I kind of want to avoid setting up separate structure with DVD folders.

Do you think in the future that iso playback will be available directly from NPVR without the separate mounting of shares?

Thanks again,

\\Agerdin

[mvallevand]

Sub would need to make the changes to support .iso files mixed in with avi's etc. I don't think mpvmcx2 cares.

As for direct support no. ISO files are not video files they are a complete file system in one file. mvpmcx2 actually mounts them (the way Daemon-tools does on a PC) and this kind of functionality isn't good using stream based protocols like http. You can of course stream the vob files if is this what you want to do.

Martin

[agerdin]

Sub would need to make the changes to support .iso files mixed in with avi's etc. I don't think mpvmcx2 cares.

As for direct support no. ISO files are not video files they are a complete file system in one file. mvpmcx2 actually mounts them (the way Daemon-tools does on a PC) and this kind of functionality isn't good using stream based protocols like http. You can of course stream the vob files if is this what you want to do.

Martin

Ok, thanks for the info. How does this work using the native NMT interface. From there I can choose to play an iso which is mixed with other formats. Is there mounting going on in the background?

\\Agerdin

[mvallevand]

Ok, thanks for the info. How does this work using the native NMT interface. From there I can choose to play an iso which is mixed with other formats. Is there mounting going on in the background?

\\Agerdin

The mixed iso issue is with GBPVR and since it is not being developed that limitation won't be fixed. NPVR doesn't support iso files yet so maybe sub will handle them differently, I don't know.


And yes ISO's are mounted by the NMT software too.

Martin

[agerdin]

First just so you know sub didn't add DVD playback support to the NMT yet so when it goes out of beta I won't be supporting GBPVR questions like this, hopefully others in the community will step up.

To get it to work ISO and VIDEO_TS folders must be in unique folders, they can't be mixed with avi and standard formats. This following is what I expect you will need in the cgi file. If I remember you turned off longfile name support I am not sure if that will be an issue or not.

Code:

mkdir /mnt/\\\\Gerdin-server\\Videos

mount -t cifs //IP of Gerdin-server/Videos /mnt/\\\\Gerdin-server\\Videos -o username=...,password=...,ro

In your scenario the Z: is misleading since the server won't be using that, it uses the config.xml syntax.

Martin

Martin,

I am trying to mount another share as a DVD share but this share has a space in the name (Recorded TV). I have tried to replace the space with \040 but that does not seem to work. Do you mind taking a look at what I have added to the npvr.cgi file and maybe you can tell me what I am doing wrong?

Code:

mkdir /mnt/\\\\GERDIN-SERVER\\Videos
    mount -t cifs //192.168.0.110/Videos /mnt/\\\\GERDIN-SERVER\\Videos -o username=Guest,ro
    mkdir /mnt/\\\\GERDIN-SERVER\\Recorded\040TV
    mount -t cifs //192.168.0.110/Recorded\040TV /mnt/\\\\GERDIN-SERVER\\Recorded\040TV -o username=Guest,ro

Thanks,

\\Agerdin

[mvallevand]

The proper way to escape spaces in linux is to use backslash space. "\ " Did you try that?

Martin