where do you put files for Mplayer?

[brightshadow360]

today, mplayer came out on cidia. it said to put files in private/var/media, however, this does not exist. I tried to put it in private/var/mobile/media, but it didn't detect my files. tried creating the file in var, but no go. what is wrong?

[Lin]

>tried creating the file in var

You first have to CREATE the media folder ;)
Then put the video files in there. It does work, then.

[andybno1]

^^^ what he said, I was in same position as you thinkin ok wheres the folder? maybe its the wrong location but eventually I thought hmmm maybe create the folder so I did and uploaded a movie file and tada it showed up.

sometimes it really is the simplest thing that can fox the brain lol

[brightshadow360]

I DID make a folder, but no worries. I found the problem. Aparently, apple software is case sensitive.:rolleyes:

[dumbnameiknow]

How do you create the private/var/media folder?

please help, guys.

thanks a lot.

[andybno1]

you need to ssh into the ipod's file system and go to that folder and create folder there

[brightshadow360]

How do you create the private/var/media folder?

please help, guys.

thanks a lot.

use mobilefinder. You can find it on cidia. It's quicker and easier than using ssh.

[andybno1]

use mobilefinder. You can find it on cidia. It's quicker and easier than using ssh.

that maybe but if they ssh in make the folder they can then just simply copy files over without having to use finder then SSH into the device anyway to upload the files.

[Konstanty]

Trouble is, on my 16G Touch, /private/var/media is in the system partition, and only has 79M free space.

Now, if we could put the media files in the user partition, where there's plenty of space...

[boast]

did you try creating a symbolic link from /private/var/media to a folder in the user partition?