script to play iso's

[Blue Racer]

Just upgraded to Vista pc. I am trying to get my ISO files to play. It's not working though. I used a script like this one in my old XP machine. Any help would be appreciated. The "Videos" directory has sharing turned on.

mkdir /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Videos
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/Videos /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Videos -o username=guest,ro

[mvallevand]

Upload your log and I will have a look.

Martin

[Blue Racer]

Thanks for taking a look Martin

[mvallevand]

I actually wanted to see logs of you trying to play an iso, but I did note that you don't even have \\192.168.0.4\Videos configured just and F Drive and one called \\192.168.0.4\e

Martin

[Blue Racer]

Try these log files. I rebooted both the pc and the pch. I then loaded up gbpvr on the tv and tried to play ISO's in 2 different directories and then tried to play a DVD. I then zipped the logs directory. These are the lines in my browser.cgi file.

mkdir /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Videos
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/Videos /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Videos -o username=guest,ro
mkdir /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Movies
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/Movies /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\Movies -o username=guest,ro
mkdir /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\DVD
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/DVD /mnt/\\\\192.168.0.4\\DVD -o username=guest,ro

Videos share is family videos in iso format
Movies share are dvd's in iso format
DVD share is the actual dvd drive on the computer

[mvallevand]

You've now configured GBPVR to use named shared and if that actually works for general playing from the video library, (since GBPVR might not be able to resolves the name), you will need to use \\\\MASTERPC\\ instead of the IP when you set it up.

Here are some of the many relevant links

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=8
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=36544

Martin

[Blue Racer]

Can't get it to work. Martin could you make some suggestions on how it should be set-up. mvpmc file, gbpvr, etc.
Also I switched my log-on for gbpvr recording service to my account instead of the local system account. I think I need it this way to play videos from a share. But when I change it I can not play any of my .mpg files. Do you know what the problem is?

[mvallevand]

I don't want you to move away from local system, since I don't support password protected shares, it causes too much headache for me. The request was to access files from a share using the ip notation \\##.##.##.##\sharename instead of a mapped drive letter or to modify your script to use a name.

For DVD playing this one of those things that would take under a minute if I was there, but since I can't be there I really need your GBPVR logs.

To hopefully resolve this quickly could you try some telnet debugging. Exit GBPVR to the PCH menu and from I'd like to see a telnet capture with the following commands

ls /mnt

/etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2

At this point, I'd like to see a screen capture showing you trying to play a DVD is playing, I am betting it is a case name or something trivial like that.

Martin

[Blue Racer]

Martin,
I was playing around with telnet & pch this weekend. I actually got the iso files to play by playing around with my share permissions. I still cannot play an unprotected dvd in the dvd drive. One problem though. After I did a complete reboot of the pch and then loaded gbpvr the iso's worked. I then exited to the pch menus and did the telnet commands you indicated. I received permission denied on all three shared directories I set up, and of course the iso's didn't play. After doing hard reboot of the pch and loading gbpvr all the iso's played again. Do you know why it would do this?

[mvallevand]

My guess is to try username=root instead of guest in your script, the PCH remounts existing drives and it seems Vista won't allow two users on the same share from the same remote computer.

Martin