I have my media organized in LinuxMCE under Windows Shares, but I don't use LMCE's directory structure. When I go to the admin website, my shares appear under the other directory.

When I'm in the orbiter and I select to filter by filename, nothing displays, all my media disappears.

Is there a way to use the filename filter even if you don't use LMCE's directory structure?

Thanks

lon22

Hi all, I downloaded the dvd iso files. The files carry a .iso_part1, .iso_part2 , .iso_part3, .iso_part0 extension. I was wondering howto burn these images onto a dvds so that they are bootable. I am using vista to burn the dvds and when I right click on the image files I donot get the option to burn ISo to dvd, i can burn the file to dvd but not as an image.  I even tried renaming the file extension to .iso but it still does not work. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. thanks....JB

Where and how did you download those files? As far as I now these are the only files available:

caa718e4bddcf7230f3c7f4bc31453ab  LinuxMCE-CD1-0710Beta4-amd64.iso
193b2147d52e64ae77b3385bef7da187  LinuxMCE-CD2-0710Beta4-amd64.iso
6ba755634fbf6403d5d599b12e240fa2  LinuxMCE-DVD-0710Beta4-amd64.iso
7679241208c974b4ae14f5069583873a  LinuxMCE-DVD-DL-0710Beta4-amd64.iso
234ab22fb2d1924d0a880ff422f158d8  LinuxMCE-CD1-0710Beta4-i386.iso
2041c2e6b3ce165b378f8d34d67cca8e  LinuxMCE-CD2-0710Beta4-i386.iso
705b7543af00472cb389f255acfb525e  LinuxMCE-DVD-0710Beta4-i386.iso

To burn an ISO to DVD you need software capable of doing it, like Nero or some other burning tool. Vista like other Windows operating systems don't have built ISO burning tools.

Is there only one partition on the 320 drive? You can partition the 320 drive to have two or more partitions. Install Xp on one partition and then install Kubuntu (via Kubuntu Live (Desktop CD)) on the other partition.  Once Kubuntu is installed use the Linuxmce CDs to install LinuxMCE. Be sure not to use the LinuxMCE DVDs because that will erase your entire drive.

LinuxMCE CDs to use
234ab22fb2d1924d0a880ff422f158d8  LinuxMCE-CD1-0710Beta4-i386.iso
2041c2e6b3ce165b378f8d34d67cca8e  LinuxMCE-CD2-0710Beta4-i386.iso

Note. If you only have one partition on the 320 drive, you probably will have to repartition the entire drive, o make sure you back up your data. I just gave a quick overview that you can accomplish what you want to do, but I'm sure there is more info and details out there. When creating the partition for any operating system, make sure you pay attention to disk space requirements.

lon22

gunsmoke,

Prior to installing beta4, did you previously have a version of LinuxMCE installed on your system.  If you did and you choose the option during the installation to keep your current configuration, then your login and password should be the same from the previous installation. Regardless, the behavior that your seeing is unusual.

When it reboots after the installation it starts well and it gets to the GUI with my user name displayed.

Are you referring to the Kubuntu login screen? When LinuxMCE is configured to start automatically, you shouldn't see this screen. Sounds like something went wrong with your installation.

You can try to log in to your system under maintenance mode by hitting the esc key during the boot process. You can attempt to use your password and username. If you get into the system, type startx. Hopefully kubuntu starts up. Go to the linuxmce control panel and click on the option to start automatically.

lon22

rob_cod, what version of LMCE are you using? What is the longest amount of time you waited to see if you could get past the splash screen. 0710 of Kubuntu caused the splash screen to display for over 5 mins before proceeeding for some people. There is a fix posted somewhere on this site if that is indeed your problem.

lon22

I believe this is true for trying to attached documents also. Similar message.

I think a nice new feature for linuxmce would be to have some type of remote scheduling of media capability.

The general idea is to be able to schedule media to be played at a certain time. I envision the interface to look very much like MythWeb's inferface for scheduling recordings. The only real difference would be that there would be empty time slots and you would choose what media would played during those time slots.

I'm wondering how much effort it would take to complete a project like this.

lon22

Thanks for suggestions. I am trying free Drive Rescue,

Anyways, I still do not get the point why the installer does not allow you to select a partition to install to. Even needing to partition the disk by hand. I just don't get it.

You might be able to use Active@ Partition Recovery Professional. It isn't free, but it has allowed me to recovery Windows XP partitions in the past without fail.

What is the file extension? Is it simply .avi? I had a problem like this before. My problem was that I had a special character (#) within the file name that once removed played.

would you guys try to re-implement this so that it works inside the web admin itself?

-Thom

I'm currently working on that endeavor now.

Could you re-post your script please?  The link appears to be broken.  I'm interested in giving this a shot.

I get an error when I try to upload the file - "Cannot access attachments upload path!".

Just copy the code below into a text editor and save the file as BatchAssign.php.

Code:

<?php

$i = 0;
$con = $_POST['con'];
$userID = $_POST['userID'];
$passWord = $_POST['passWord'];
$querStr = $_POST['querStr'];
$querStr2 = $_POST['querStr2'];
$isLoggedOn = $_POST['isLoggedOn'];
$mediaSubTypeEnum = array (1 => "TV Shows",2 => "Movies",3 => "Home Videos", 4 => "Sports Events", 5 => "Music Videos", 6 => "Alternative", 7 => "Popular Music", 8 => "Classical Music");
$fileFormatEnum = array (1 => "Low Res",2 => "DVD",3 => "Standard Def", 4 => "HD 720", 5 => "HD 1080", 6 => "Low Quality", 7 => "MP3", 8 => "CD Quality", 9 => "High-def audio");


Echo "<html>";
Echo "<title>LMCE Batch Assign</title>
  <LINK REL=relationship HREF='URL' REL='Banner'> ";


Echo  "
<body bgcolor='Green'>
<h1> LinuxMCE: Batch Assign Cover Art & Attributes</h1>
<hr />
<br>
<form action=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']." method='post'>";
if (isset($_POST['logon'])) {
$isLoggedOn = 1;
}

if (!$isLoggedOn) {
Echo "
Logon Name: <input name='userID' type='text' size='10'/>
Password: <input type='password' name='passWord' type='text' size='10'/>
<input type='submit' name='logon' value='Login'>
<hr />
";
}

if ($isLoggedOn) {
$con = mysql_connect("localhost", $userID, $passWord);
if (!$con) {
$isLoggedOn = 0;
Echo "
Logon Name: <input name='userID' type='text' size='10'/>
Password: <input type='password' name='passWord' type='text' size='10'/>
<input type='submit' name='logon' value='Login'>
<hr />
";
Echo "<input type='hidden' id='isLoggedOn' name='isLoggedOn' value='".$isLoggedOn."'/>";
     die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("pluto_media") or die(mysql_error());

}
if ($con) {
Echo  "
Search For File: <input name='querStr' type='text' size='10'/>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Find'>
Search For Directory: <input name='querStr2' type='text' size='10'/>
<input type='submit' name='submit3' value='Find'>
<input type='hidden' id='con' name='con' value='".$con."'/>
<input type='hidden' id='userID' name='userID' value='".$userID."'/>
<input type='hidden' id='passWord' name='passWord' value='".$passWord."'/>
<input type='hidden' id='isLoggedOn' name='isLoggedOn' value='".$isLoggedOn."'/>
<hr />
";

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
if (strlen($querStr) > 0) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM File WHERE Filename LIKE '%".$querStr."%'");


//<input type='checkbox' value='1' onclick='var w = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var i = 0; i\"<\" w.length; i++){ if(w[i].type='checkbox'){ w[i].checked = this.checked;};};'>
Echo " <input type='submit' name='submit2' value='Add Attributes To Selected Files'>
<table border='1' bgcolor='White'>
<tr>
<th>Primary File</th>
<th>Update File</th>
<th>Filename</th>
<th>Path</th>
<th>MediaSubType</th>
<th>FileFormat</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><input type='radio' name='primary[]' value=$i/></td>";
echo "<td><input type='checkbox' name='CopyFile[]' value='$i'/></td>";
echo "<td>".$row['Filename']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['Path']."</td>";

$FK_Media_Subtype[$i] = $row['FK_MediaSubType'];
$mediaSubtypeStr = implode(",",$FK_Media_Subtype);
echo "<td>".$mediaSubTypeEnum[$FK_Media_Subtype[$i]]."</td>";

$FK_File_Format[$i] = $row['FK_FileFormat'];
$fileFormatStr = implode(",",$FK_File_Format);
echo "<td>".$fileFormatEnum[$FK_File_Format[$i]]."</td>";      
   
$myArray[$i++] = $row['PK_File'];                            
echo "</tr>";
$saveStr = implode(",",$myArray);
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry' name='myArray' value='".$saveStr."'/>";
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry2' name='fkmediasubtype' value='".$mediaSubtypeStr."'/>";
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry3' name='fkfileformat' value='".$fileFormatStr."'/>";
}
echo "</table>";
}
else {
echo "Please enter a valid search string.";
}
}





if(isset($_POST['submit2'])) {
foreach($_POST['primary'] as $value) {
$value  = (int) $value;
echo "the primary is".$value."\n";
}               
$saveStr  = $_POST['myArray'];
$myArray = explode(",",$saveStr);

$saveStr  = $_POST['fkmediasubtype'];
$FK_Media_Subtype = explode(",",$saveStr);

$saveStr  = $_POST['fkfileformat'];
$FK_File_Format = explode(",",$saveStr);
$primaryVal = $value;


$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Picture_File Where FK_File = '".$myArray[$value]."'");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$FK_Picture = $row['FK_Picture'];

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM File_Attribute Where FK_File = '".$myArray[$value]."'");
$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$FK_File_Attribute[$i++] = $row['FK_Attribute'];
}


// echo "media type = ".$FK_File_Format[$primaryVal];
foreach($_POST['CopyFile'] as $value) {
$value = (int) $value;
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `Picture_File` VALUES ($FK_Picture,$myArray[$value],NULL,NULL,NULL,0,NULL,NULL)");
for ($i = 0; $i < count($FK_File_Attribute); $i++) {
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `File_Attribute` VALUES ($myArray[$value],$FK_File_Attribute[$i],'0','0',NULL ,NULL ,NULL ,'0',NOW(), NULL)");
}
mysql_query("UPDATE File SET FK_MediaSubType=$FK_Media_Subtype[$primaryVal] ,FK_FileFormat=$FK_File_Format[$primaryVal] WHERE PK_File=$myArray[$value]");
} 
}



if(isset($_POST['submit3'])) {
if (strlen($querStr2) > 0) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM File WHERE Path LIKE '%".$querStr2."%'");


//<input type='checkbox' value='1' onclick='var w = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var i = 0; i\"<\" w.length; i++){ if(w[i].type='checkbox'){ w[i].checked = this.checked;};};'>
Echo " <input type='submit' name='submit2' value='Add Attributes To Selected Files'>
<table border='1' bgcolor='White'>
<tr>
<th>Primary File</th>
<th>Update File</th>
<th>Filename</th>
<th>Path</th>
<th>MediaSubType</th>
<th>FileFormat</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><input type='radio' name='primary[]' value=$i/></td>";
echo "<td><input type='checkbox' name='CopyFile[]' value='$i'/></td>";
echo "<td>".$row['Filename']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['Path']."</td>";

$FK_Media_Subtype[$i] = $row['FK_MediaSubType'];
$mediaSubtypeStr = implode(",",$FK_Media_Subtype);
echo "<td>".$mediaSubTypeEnum[$FK_Media_Subtype[$i]]."</td>";

$FK_File_Format[$i] = $row['FK_FileFormat'];
$fileFormatStr = implode(",",$FK_File_Format);
echo "<td>".$fileFormatEnum[$FK_File_Format[$i]]."</td>";      
   
$myArray[$i++] = $row['PK_File'];                            
echo "</tr>";
$saveStr = implode(",",$myArray);
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry' name='myArray' value='".$saveStr."'/>";
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry2' name='fkmediasubtype' value='".$mediaSubtypeStr."'/>";
echo "<input type='hidden' id='arry3' name='fkfileformat' value='".$fileFormatStr."'/>";
}
echo "</table>";
}
else {
echo "Please enter a valid search string.";
}
}

}

Echo "</form>";
Echo "</body>";
Echo "</html>";

?>

Hi.  I just built a custom rig to run linuxmce and to my disappointment, it was not as easy as the video made it look.  My problem lies with my video card.  It's a gefore NX8400GS.  The quick install dvd didn't provide the proper driver to enable the highest UI.  So, I followed the steps outlined on the wiki for installing the nvidia driver.  That didn't work.  It kept reverting back to the vesa driver.  So then, I tried install 7.10 using the install discs.  I Installed the driver first before lmce.  It still is using the nvidia driver, but now my resolution is set way too high to see anything.  I checked the xorg.conf and the resolution is set to the the correct res.  (680x480)  I'm using a giant tube tv with a vga input.  It's native res is 680x480.  So, my questiong is how to get the resolution correct.  I can post my xorg file or anything else that is needed.  I'm so close, I just need my resolution to get down to 680x480.  Thanks in advance.


Here are the specs to my video card. 
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814127322

Can you get to the kde desktop? If the resolution is good enough for the kde desktop to show up then its probably not the video card. To get to the desktop - boot the core and hit esc to get to startup menu. Wait for prompt and enter password. Should be linuxmce for both user and password. Then type startx. There are settings that you can tweak on the pluto admin site to set your resolution. Did you see the AVWizard?

Good stuff. Out of curiosty, what other media types do you think a wrapper would be useful for?


lon22

What type of system did you install to? Did you notice any error messages during the install?

Not to be funny, but did you check the batteries?