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05.12.2007 19:08:32
Movie Library not working in Leopard
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I just upgraded to Leopard and now can't see any of my mounted DVDs in the Movie Library. This used to work fine in Tiger.

One thing I noticed is that if I do a spotlight search for VIDEO_TS, nothing shows up. Is there a problem in Leopard searching a mounted DVD? Has anyone else seen this problem?

-- Andy 

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05.12.2007 22:49:02
Re: Movie Library not working in Leopard
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If you *just* upgraded to Leopard, it is highly likely Spotlight is 
still building its indices. AFAIK no search is possible until the 
completion of that search.

At any rate, as long as Spotlight is not able to find your VIDEO_TS 
folder(s), Remote Buddy won't be able to find them using Spotlight, 
either.

You can circumvent problems that Spotlight is having by telling Remote 
Buddy to manually search through specific folders (Preferences > Movie 
Library), but I'm not sure whether this will also work for physical 
DVDs, as those change their path in the OS X filesystem depending on 
their name. As Remote Buddy is using smart OS X aliases instead of 
static path names, it might still work, but it's nothing that I've 
tested myself thus far.

Best regards, 
Felix 

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05.12.2007 23:19:22
Re: Movie Library not working in Leopard
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If you *just* upgraded to Leopard, it is highly likely Spotlight is 
still building its indices.

 
Actually, I updated last night and it was about an hour later that I started using RemoteBuddy to watch a DVD. As far as I could tell, Spotlight had finished, but I let it go overnight to be sure.

I tried manually adding a folder (/Volumes) in the preferences, but I guess it doesn't do a recursive search. Since I typically have more than one DVD mounted and change them around all the time, a more specific manual search wouldn't help.

I'm wondering if there's something in Leopard that excludes searches from DVDs or other read-only volumes. Any ideas if there's a way to configure Spotlight to look at the DVDs?

-- Andy 

User

09.12.2007 18:04:02
Re: Re: Movie Library not working in Leopard
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Andy,

Remote Buddy will search the paths you manually specifiy in a 
recursive fashion - which means it'll perform a complete search of all 
of your disks if you add "/Volumes".

I've just tried to find the VIDEO_TS folder on a DVD in the drive and 
I too couldn't find it through Spotlight. So I guess this a general 
change in Leopard's Spotlight.

I'll see what can be done in terms of manual DVD insert/eject 
detection and a quick search for a VIDEO_TS folder on the volume's 
root level.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

10.12.2007 06:24:49
Re: Movie Library not working in Leopard
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Remote Buddy will search the paths you manually specifiy in a 
recursive fashion - which means it'll perform a complete search of all 
of your disks if you add "/Volumes".

 
Tried that - didn't seem to work!

I've just tried to find the VIDEO_TS folder on a DVD in the drive and 
I too couldn't find it through Spotlight. So I guess this a general 
change in Leopard's Spotlight.

 
Yes, I've been digging around in Leopard to try and find a solution to that, but it just seems to stubbornly ignore the DVDs!

I'll see what can be done in terms of manual DVD insert/eject 
detection and a quick search for a VIDEO_TS folder on the volume's 
root level.

 
That would be fantastic - thanks!

-- Andy