Movies from external drive gets deleted (1 Viewer)

[jof]

Hi!

I have all my dvd movies on a external usb hdd with dvd file structure(video_ts folder)

Because of Microsofts limitation on the Windows Vista DVD Navigator, DVD Rips on external drives will not play!
So I mounted the external HDD to a folder at my internal C:/ HDD. If I start the movies from this folder, they play without a problem on every player, also with MP

So the Import Path in Moving Pictures is this folder, where the external HDD is mounted.

At prior releases from Moving Pictures, I marked this folder as external Device. But since 0.7 this is not possible anymore.

If I unplug my external HDD now all movies get deleted in the Moving Pictures database!
If I plug it in again and go to the Moving Pictures Configuration it starts to import the movies again!

I guess the problem is, that Moving Pictures treats it not as an external drive and so it thinks the movies are deleted when the drive is unplugged.

 

[fforde]

Hrmm... that is an interesting problem. I was playing around with the logic just now, and I think I can tweak the "removable" logic to detect this situation. I have created an issue for this over on the bug tracker, if you have a Google account, star the issue over there and you will receive email updates as progress is made.

I will try to get this fix in 0.7.1 if the change is not too major. Especially since there is not really a work around in your situation.

 

[jof]

Thanks for your efforts!
Yes there is not really a workaround. The only workaround is to use the PDVD 7 DVD Navigator in MP, but I only have PDVD 8 and its DVD Navigator is not supported in MediaPortal.

Please let me know, if you need logs or anything else. I will also follow this issue on google code.

 

[explodedk]

have same problem and following this and the googlecode page

 

[xanadu1979]

Thanks for your efforts!
Yes there is not really a workaround. The only workaround is to use the PDVD 7 DVD Navigator in MP, but I only have PDVD 8 and its DVD Navigator is not supported in MediaPortal.

Please let me know, if you need logs or anything else. I will also follow this issue on google code.

PowerDVD 8 navigator is supported in the most recent SVN builds of MediaPortal.