[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by ScottJ97 The default httpd homedir (where cgi-bin exists) is mounted read-only. I figured I could kill the default httpd and restart it with a different home directory. Yet after I kill and restart it (even with the default home dir) all future http responses are empty.

In case anyone cares, I was missing a path in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Fixed that and now I'm running my own CGI program that fixes the query string and then runs the original.

[aries_sd]

Originally Posted by ScottJ97 In case anyone cares, I was missing a path in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Fixed that and now I'm running my own CGI program that fixes the query string and then runs the original.

Cool! Can you share your cgi script so we can see what you're doing?

Does this persist across player reboots?

-Aries

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by aries_sd Cool! Can you share your cgi script so we can see what you're doing? Does this persist across player reboots? -Aries

Sure, give me a couple of days to publish it. It's nothing special, a little C program that does getenv("QUERY_STRING"), manipulates it, setenv(), then exec() or something like that to run the original do.

It persists across reboots via a launch script in /config/boot.

This approach worked for me only because I have only Bluray ISOs in my library and no DVDs. So when MyMovies says to start_dvd_playback, I know it's mistaken. If you're running the latest firmware, you could change it to use launch_media_url and let the Dune figure out the file type.

[Gennoise]

Originally Posted by aries_sd So, I tried this and the API returned a command_status "ok" but didn't actually do anything, just sits at the navigator. So, not sure what the story is with this. Did it actually start playing a disc when you tried it? -Aries

It does actually start playing whatever disc I insert, but only if it also shows up in the Dune's network shares (alongside its internal hard drive).

It seems to be somewhat of a random hit-or-miss process. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Generally I can get it to work after a few retries (opening and closing the disc tray).

[aries_sd]

Originally Posted by Gennoise It does actually start playing whatever disc I insert, but only if it also shows up in the Dune's network shares (alongside its internal hard drive). It seems to be somewhat of a random hit-or-miss process. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Generally I can get it to work after a few retries (opening and closing the disc tray).

Yup, seems to be that way. I made a ticket on the issue although playing individual disks isn't a huge deal for me.

[Gennoise]

Good luck

I was extremely surprised that mine got answered, although I did put a considerable amount of effort into my bug report (link).

In fact I'm going to add the optical_drive bug to that page, they have to read through it anyway since I've sent that link.

Now concerning the bug in MyMovies, you could also just e-mail Brian about the issue. I've contacted him through e-mail before and he's very friendly and understanding. Unless of course the problem is that you downloaded a profile for the dvd version instead of the blu-ray version in collection management. I know I'm guilty.

EDIT

I made a page with feature requests and added it to the support ticket. If you have any requests yourself, I'll add them to the page.

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by Gennoise Now concerning the bug in MyMovies, you could also just e-mail Brian about the issue. I've contacted him through e-mail before and he's very friendly and understanding. Unless of course the problem is that you downloaded a profile for the dvd version instead of the blu-ray version in collection management. I know I'm guilty.

The titles I add to my MM collection are definitely always Blu-ray.

I've posted about this and many other bugs on their forums, but Brian is almost never interested or motivated enough to fix them. I've waited for months and months before, including for this bug, and at this point I've decided that if there's any possible way I can work around a bug, that's what I do.

MM is a good product and I still recommend it (especially over Zappiti which I consider in the same quality league as my high school computer science projects) but Brian just doesn't seem interested in customer feedback.

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by aries_sd Cool! Can you share your cgi script so we can see what you're doing? Does this persist across player reboots? -Aries

I wrote up the details on my wiki: Fixing iOS App Launching. The approach I used could be used to add new IP Control commands or manipulate any of the existing commands.

[Gennoise]

I assume this hack can also be used to put other programs alongside the original do? I might go ahead and learn a bit about C programming if so, this sounds really neat.

In particular, I'd like to use this to implement a reboot command as well as something that returns the contents of /tmp/sysinfo.txt and /proc/uptime. But I don't want to overwrite the original program.

[aries_sd]

Originally Posted by Gennoise I assume this hack can also be used to put other programs alongside the original do? I might go ahead and learn a bit about C programming if so, this sounds really neat. In particular, I'd like to use this to implement a reboot command as well as something that returns the contents of /tmp/sysinfo.txt and /proc/uptime. But I don't want to overwrite the original program.

From what I see was done, the items you want to accomplish should be quite easy to achieve actually.

I'm not sure we can fix any of the bugs in the protocol this way though as we'd need to know how "do" and friends work internally to replicate the functionality with corrections. For example, I'd like a way to turn off subtitles but without knowing what to twiddle internally in the player to accomplish that, I would not be able to implement it even with the ability to replace or supplement "do".