2008-04-11, 19:48
I completely love the BBC iPlayer script ... I've cleaned down my dusty old Xbox just to give it a try.
Can someone tell me if I can configure the iPlayer script to read and/or write to a shared folder (samba?) on my WinXP PC?
I've tried all permeations of the following ...
... but with no success.
To be honest I don't even know if XBMC can write to these shares or not (wouldn't it be great if they could) ... but I'd excpect it to at least be able to read from it. If I get the above code wrong then the script won't even start, so I think my mod is correct.
It would be great to be able to 'browse' for a save directory rather than hack the script, any ideas if this is in the feature request list (where ever that resides)? For now I'd settle for having 2 instances of the script, one saving to the xbox, the other to the share. Then I could download to the xbox, transfer to the share with the file manager, then run the second script to play from the share. (I only have a basic 8GB original HDD see. I could upgrade it but I'd rather invest in a NAS ... hence the extended relevance of my question).
Thanks for listening, this is all a bit new to me. Let's hope the streaming can be fixed then all this is defunct.
Regards ... Matt
Can someone tell me if I can configure the iPlayer script to read and/or write to a shared folder (samba?) on my WinXP PC?
I've tried all permeations of the following ...
Code:
SAVE_DIR = "smb://WORKGROUP/SERVER/SHARE/iplayer_downloads"
To be honest I don't even know if XBMC can write to these shares or not (wouldn't it be great if they could) ... but I'd excpect it to at least be able to read from it. If I get the above code wrong then the script won't even start, so I think my mod is correct.
It would be great to be able to 'browse' for a save directory rather than hack the script, any ideas if this is in the feature request list (where ever that resides)? For now I'd settle for having 2 instances of the script, one saving to the xbox, the other to the share. Then I could download to the xbox, transfer to the share with the file manager, then run the second script to play from the share. (I only have a basic 8GB original HDD see. I could upgrade it but I'd rather invest in a NAS ... hence the extended relevance of my question).
Thanks for listening, this is all a bit new to me. Let's hope the streaming can be fixed then all this is defunct.
Regards ... Matt