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Help! Geexbox wont notice movies in its media.

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/help-geexbox-wont-notice-movies-in-its-media.135823/

Chetan1991
Chetan1991 Original post #1
Jan 7, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Hola. Has anyone used geexbox??
Its a small live distro, 20mb or so. A program called 'generator' can be used to make a custom bootable iso, to which you can add movies, codecs etc.
So i was planning to make a custom dvd with generator to archive 6 movies, which total 4.1 gb, but no matter what i do geexbox wont notice any file present in root folder.
Actually i made a small iso using generator.
I placed small avi files in the iso folder, acc. To geexbox wiki, and compiled the iso. Then i booted it in a clean vm in virtualbox. No matter what i do, the os won't play anything else other than its background which is also an avi. I swapped that with a southpark episode (a 50 mb avi) which worked.
Please can someone help me in creating a bootable dvd that loads geexbox which plays avi present on the dvd??
celldweller1591
Jan 12, 2011 at 7:12 PM
dnt put those movies in root..they should be in live-user's directory : '$home'
Chetan1991
Mar 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM
There's no home directory in the iso