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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: cckrobinson on March 30, 2007, 07:23:11 pm
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Here's my current setup.
I have a dual boot Windows/Ubuntu box. Two of the internal drives are essentially shared between Linux and Windows. I also have a 2nd windows box that hosts music and pictures. Currently LMCE can't find the content from any of these drives.
--device name from inside Linux
/media/hd5a ->NTFS partition containing DVD ISO images
/media/hd4a ->FAT32 partition containing various MPEG4/MPEG2 video files.
--Windows shares located on an IP ouside of the internal network
\\PICTURES
\\MUSIC
Questions:
1. Why doesn't LMCE automatically find the content on /media/hd5a and /media/hd4a drives? How do I update LMCE so that this data will appear under the 'Videos' option in the 'Media' menu?
2. I understand that LMCE won't detect my windows shares automatically since they aren't on the same "internal" network (i.e. LMCE internal network 192.168.80.xxx, but Windows Box is 192.168.2.xxx). How do I get my pictures\music to be visible to LMCE. Do I need to manually add a device(s) using the Window Share / device template 1768?
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Hi,
As of my own experience it might help to add symbolic links to those folder /media/hd5a and /media/hd4a
place the symbolic links in /home/public/data/videos/
You should check that it has read permissions as well i guess.
Best regards,.
k84
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As of my own experience it might help to add symbolic links to those folder /media/hd5a and /media/hd4a
place the symbolic links in /home/public/data/videos/
You should check that it has read permissions as well i guess.
I already tried that, but it didn't seem to work. I added a symbolic link to one of the drives and then from the admin page clicked "resynchronize" I believe. A script was run and it said that the contents of the folder was added to the database or something like that. I could see it processing the names of my ISO files, so I know my link was good. I thought that I was in the clear until I tried to view the files from LMCE. When I select the 'videos' menu my ISO images aren't listed.
I tried ripping a DVD from inside LMCE and that worked fine. The movie was listed and I could select it.
I'll try it again tonight and check the permissions of the symbolic link.
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Think it might be a problem with permisson then maybe
chmod -r 644 /media/hd4a
or something might work?
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It looks like my symbolic link was working all along. I just didn't have any media in the folder that LMCE knew how to play. It apparently doesn't know what to do with ISO dvd's. As soon as I copied a MPEG2 into the folder it showed up in the videos menu.
So, if you have a hard drive on your LMCE box with media you can get it to show up inside video folder like this:
cd /home/public/data/videos
sudo ln -s /media/hda5 ./hda5
In the example above, /media/hda5 is the location of my NTFS drive. LMCE will automatically scan the directories and subdirectories for video files. The same thing should work for audio, but I haven't tried it yet.
Enjoy!
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if you rename the files to .dvd then it works.