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[kira]

I have a brand new ET5000 box and a fresh Open PLi image installed OpenPLi-2.1-beta-et5x00-20120109.
I place a few media files on my USB stick (jpg, avi,mkv, mov, mp3, wav, ) and want to play them all nicely on the box.B
BUT once I insert USB stick into the box a popup message comes with "No displayable files on this medium found".
I assmue I should see the list of my files or at least their number, right.
Media Scanner plugin is installed by default.
I did another test =>

I start the player first and then instert USB stick => And nothing happens! Means no popup message but also no USB folders seen in the player folder list. Then I exit the player, start it again and only then the USB folders/files are seen in the folder list.
Interesting is that I repeat the same with the the default Media Player (started from main Menu)
and once I insert USB it shows me immidiately my folders list on my USB stick.
So I assume something is in the PLi player soft wrong.

Please suggest how to fix it?

[pieterg]

most likely, the hotplug event is sent before the filesystem has been mounted. e.g. for /dev/sdx before /dev/sdx1 has been plugged.

[MiLo]

The scanner does not look in sub-folders (which isn't so bad, you don't want to sit and watch spinners for several minutes if you insert your HDD with 50k MP3 files on it).

What I was seriously considering is to offer the option to simply let the movielist handle it all. Insert stick, this just pops the movielist on that location. No matter what you insert, in 90% of the cases the movielist will do just fine (and it saves you from getting silly questions like "do you want to play the DVD" and do).

[pieterg]

you have my vote

[kira]

I found that ONLY files placed in the root dir can be found. Nothing in the folders
Can somebody push for a fix for it?
Thanks

[pieterg]

Can somebody push for a fix for it?

There's a good reason why it works like that. Please read what MiLo said about that.

[Rob van der Does]

What I was seriously considering is to offer the option to simply let the movielist handle it all. Insert stick, this just pops the movielist on that location.

Sounds good indeed!
And when committed that way can "MediaScanner" be left out?

[jeffphil]

Hi Team I was playing with a USB DVD drive attached to a DM800 this weekend and from my point of view the Media Scanner was just annoying. It is far simpler to pop in the DVD give the drive a few secs to pass the DVD info on then start the inbuilt movie player then select the Video.ts folder and press ok. I wonder if it isn't a bad idea to retain the "Do you want to play a DVD question" when a DVD is inserted it saves navigation and would be quite logical to expect that was the intention of the user. But I gues I am just considering a Drive attached to the Dreambox and if it is a networked drive that may not be the case so maybe the popup needs to be dependant on source so it does for attached Drives and not for Networked Devices. If you are going to use movie list is it possible to replace the directory names with device type so instead of /upperusb/sv0 if this is a DVD player could it be called for example USB - DVD. This suggestion is for the wives and families to make it simplier for them to drive. Makes it easier to justify purchasing new toys when the old ones are easy for them to use