STV Import: Mount DVD ISO Images and External DVD Player Ver 0.12

[jbuszkie]

Here is my first cut at mounting ISO images in sage.. And I've also included the ability to use an external DVD player.

Most of this was adapted from Cayars STV.

There are a couple of manual things you have to do to make this work.

1. You need to Damon tools
2. You need to add the ISO or MSD extension to the known formats.
3. You probably need to customize the external commands to your system.

Installation instructions..
**They are different from the last version...

1. Download the latest zip file.

2. Extract it to [Sage install Dir]\SageTV\
In my case it's
C:\Program Files\SageTVServer\SageTV\

This will create the STVI file and an External Directory.
And add two jar files to the jar directory.
The External Directory is where the commands are.

3. You need to customize the Commands.

• ImageMount.cmd - This is the command to mount the ISO DVD image.
• ImageUnmount.cmd - This is the command to unmount the ISO DVD image.
• DVDPlayer.cmd - This is the command for the external DVD player.
• ISOPlayer.cmd - This is the command for the external DVD player for the ISO images..

What are they:

• ImageMount.cmd and ImageUnmount.cmd - The only thing you might need to change here is the path to damon tools

• DVDPlayer.cmd - Right now this is setup for PowerDVD for the Z: drive. You can change this command to whatever your favorite player is. Or you may have to modify the drive letter.

• ISOplayer.cmd - This is basically identical to the DVDPlayer command except it goes to the e: drive which is where I have my ISO's mounted to. And you can change this to which ever player you desire or possibly just change the drive letter.

4. You need to add the ISO images to the list of known media formats.. To do this you need to edit the sage.properties (While sage is completely exited, of course)
You need to edit this line:

seeker/video_library_import_filename_extensions=.mpg,.mpeg,.mp2,.mpeg2,.mpe,.avi,.divx,.mpg1,.ts,.wmv,.asf,.wm,.tivo,.m2t,.vob,.iso

You can see I added the .iso extension for my ISO images.

5. You also need to add the parser to the list of parsers.

mediafile_metadata_parser_plugins=SageISO.Parser

6. List the iso type you want the SageISO parser to parse in this property:

SageISO/parser/file_types=iso


7. Add the import library:
Now you have to go into sage and add the directory(ies) where you have all your ISO images.

Configuration: There is only one knob at this time to turn.. It's whether or not to use the external DVD player or the internal. You can find it under detailed setup/customize

Operation:

Once you go to imported videos and select watch now, then Sage will issue the command to mount the image and then it will envoke the internal player or the external player depending on which have configured.

If you hit "Play DVD" on the Media menu, it will unmount any ISO image and try to play the DVD in the DVD ROM drive.


Known limitations:

1. There is an issue with importing ISO's Some take a long time. That's why I mount the MDS file.
*** This is now fixed with the parser... You should be able to happily mount ISO images..

2. You *Might* have to have your DVD drive letter higher than the mounted DVD drive letter. If you don't it might find the DVD ROM drive first if you are trying to play an ISO.

3. You cannot delete the ISO images from Sage. You might be able to delete the MDS file.. but that's not the big one.
**** This, I think, is also fixed as long as you import the ISO's and it's not currently mounted.

4. You can only mount 1 image at a time. (in case you have more than 1 virtual DVD drive) I only have one drive and I imagine most people do as well..

Future Enhancements (in no particular order):

1. Add support to add the IMBD info into the library like in way SageMC does it. I'll probably work on that first.. And it might be a seperate plugin... (this is almost ready)

2. Enhance the parser to automatically add the best match from IMDB to add the show info..


Version Info:

V 0.12 - STVI update. Fixed a bug that disabled playing all other media.

V 0.11 - STVI is still the same.. But two jar files were added. This will implement an ISO parser to get around the long import time of some ISOs. You should be able to import ISO's without the long delay.
Also a big shout out to GKusnick for letting me adapt his WMP Parser


V 0.10 - Intial verision.


Please let me know if you find any issues... Post any comments/suggustions here. I don't promise support or any of the future enhancements...and, like always, the wife can pull me from this at any time!

Have fun,

Jim

Have fun

[owilsky]

Let me be the first to congratulate and to thank you! This seems to have a lot of potential and I will try it this evening...

[Deadbolt]

Any chance this will work other the MediaMVP?

[jbuszkie]

I have no idea since I don't have one... I'm not even quite sure what that is!! All you youngsters with your new fangled placeshifter and MVP's. I'm old school with just Sever and client!

[jbuszkie]

New Version Posted at the top. Same STVI but I added a new ISO parser which should fixed the long delay that some experienced when you added the ISO extension to the list of imported types. Now instead of Sage trying to parse the ISO, my parser will. So now there should be no 10 minute delay per ISO when parsing ISO's

I'll bet this will be fixed with the next Sage release... but until then.... you can try the parser.

If you've already installed this import, all you have to do is just put the JAR files in the JAR directory and change the properties file...

I'd like to thank GKusnick for letting me adapt his parser!
90% of the code is his!

Have fun..

Jim

[bobrap]

If I missed it somewhere...oops. But does this work with SageMC?

[jbuszkie]

My guess would be no...

The parser would work... but not the mounting of ISO's

Jim

[bobrap]

Must not be holding my mouth right. I can't even get the isos visible in the imported videos.

[jbuszkie]

stupid question... but did you add the directory that the iso's are in??

Jim

[bobrap]

Yea, I did. I tried following your instructions. Got to be something small and stupid on my part.

[jbuszkie]

Are you using the stock STV with my mod.. or SageMC?

Send me your properties file. If you can't see any ISO's in the the import library, then there's a chance you didn't
didn't add it to the properties file correctly.

Did you shutdown sage completly before you edited the properties file? If you are running in service mode you have to shut the service down first before modifing the properties file.

This is the line you need to check:

seeker/video_library_import_filename_extensions=.mpg,.mpeg,.mp2,.mpeg2,.mpe,.avi,.divx,.mpg1,.ts,.wmv,.asf,.wm,.tivo,.m2t,.vob,.iso

There is also a music_library_filename_extensions as well.. make sure you didn't change that one instead..

That's about all I can think of for now..

Jim

[bobrap]

Tried everything you suggested. Attached is my properties file. Thanks for having a look.

[jbuszkie]

I'm not sure if this matters but..

Maybe try removing the ISO directory from the video recording directories?..

Also.. If you put some other file in that directory, does it show up under imports?

Again are you using SageMC or regular?


Jim

[bobrap]

FWIW, deleted my properties file and re-ran and all works fine. Go figure

[Deadbolt]

Anyone know if this will work with a MediaMVP media extender? Sounds perfect for what I need...but I only use media extenders for viewing.

[jbuszkie]

MY guess would be no. Since this makes the ISO look just like a DVD. If MVPs can't play DVD's then it probably won't
play ISO's.

But I know pretty much nothing about MVP so someone else would probably know more..

Jim

[Deadbolt]

Originally Posted by jbuszkie

MY guess would be no. Since this makes the ISO look just like a DVD. If MVPs can't play DVD's then it probably won't
play ISO's.

But I know pretty much nothing about MVP so someone else would probably know more..

Jim

Ah...I bet you are correct. If it acts like a DVD in the drive once mounted it won't work. I wonder if this code could be modified to mount an .iso and play it as .vob files via transcoding to the MVP. This works right now as long as you have the .vob files (your DVD) ripped to an import directory. I wonder if this code could mount to the same virtual drive letter everytime, autorun "refresh imported media" and then show that drive in the media player.

Anyone know if you can save video playlists? Right now if you load all the vobs into the playlist, I don't know of a way to save that as the movie name....would be sweet if could add into the dvd .iso a saved media playlist of .vobs. Then, if you mounted a DVD .iso on a clent box...it would show up as a normal DVD ... but if you mounted it from a mediaMVP extender it would show up as the saved playlist of the main movie.

I think i'll see what 5.1 has in store before starting in on this.....

[Opus4]

I can't give too many hints about v5.1, but one of the new things was already mentioned, I believe: there is full video playlist support -- you can have multiple video playlists, instead of just the one in v5.0 & earlier. And, you can use them for imported videos and/or recordings.

- Andy

[jbuszkie]

New version at top..

Fixed a bug that prohibited you from viewing other recordings when you used this plugin.. I guess no one else is using this! Otherwise they would have caught it!
Oh well.. I like it!

Jim

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by jbuszkie

New version at top..

Fixed a bug that prohibited you from viewing other recordings when you used this plugin.. I guess no one else is using this! Otherwise they would have caught it!
Oh well.. I like it!

Jim

I'm hoping that the next version of Sage will support DVD playback on an MVP. If it does I will be all over this plugin.