hiding videos

[RWFarley]

How do I keep a video from showing up in the thumbnails?

When I select :
Media Player/Videos
I see thumbnails of all of the video content on my N900. There are some I do NOT want to show everyone I show the phone to.

If I change the listing from Video-Date to Video-Category, I lose the thumbnails, but the title is still in the listing.


Thanks

[swagger]

be proud of your porn!

[youNit]

rename them .yourEvilName.vid

its all about the . in the beginning....

to make them visible agin you would have to change visibility settings in your file browser(dont know how) or use firefox to browse your data or use xterm to rename them if you want them visible.....

quick thought thou: why not in a seperate folder?

EDIT: the whole . thing obviously only works if . files are set to be not visible in the beginning...

[felbutss]

mate the issue with this is that the file is not visible at all to the n900. is there a way to do it so can still see the files in the file manager and open them manually???????????????

[youNit]

flag those you dont want to be recognized as videos so, that they aren't.

tollesVideo.mp4 -> tollesVideo.fun

Now you will have to resort to a second mediaplayer i think... (like mplayer or something being indifferent of the .xxx)

EDIT: Lot of hassle.
You need to know where and what is recognized as video by the player to trick it.

EDIT2: one "?" suffices.

[thinh]

be proud of your porn!

lol ahahahah seriously best way right now is go to file manager and try to change the extension untill they make some app to block videos

[RWFarley]

the file manager won't do it. It hides extensions and won't allow "." as first character. I'll see if I can find it via XTerm, but it doesn't look promising....

[felbutss]

figured it out.

make a folder on the n900 with a . at the start for example .hidden.

the folder wont be visible to the n900's file manager of media player.

if you want to get into the folder, open the web browser and the type
file:///

to get into the hidden folder

file:///home/user/MyDocs/.hidden

[archzai]

^^^ post above works... not sure why

a) u need porn on ur phone
b) u dont remove private videos off your phone

hahah

[benny1967]

not sure why

a) u need porn on ur phone


that's the whole point of getting a phone with such a high resolution screen, isn't it? ;)

[maxximuscool]

create a folder and put "." infront of it.

eg: .video

this will hide the Video folder. I think, lol, all linux does that.

[benny1967]

How do I keep a video from showing up in the thumbnails?

When I select :
Media Player/Videos
I see thumbnails of all of the video content on my N900. There are some I do NOT want to show everyone I show the phone to.

If I change the listing from Video-Date to Video-Category, I lose the thumbnails, but the title is still in the listing.


Thanks

This is not the solution you're looking for, but:
There's an ongoing more general discussion about how to protect your personal content when you hand the device to someone else.
See the proposed solutions here:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/protecting_private_content_when_loaning_device/

You might want to vote for one of the solutions or add a new one.

[bockersjv]

Why not just keep your "private" material on a separate sd card for those private moments ;)

[bockersjv]

I have the opposite problem in that I have a load of video thumbnails in the list that I cannot find a way to remove.

[Techtertainment]

I am guessing there will be an App for that very soon.. anybody remember the Safe application on s60? got me out of trouble many times with my past GF... was a win win too

GF: "why have you pssword protected whats in the safe? what are you trying to hide"

Me: "its not good your yours eyes, i am protecting you from going blind"

back and forth for 30 minutes, argument insues make up sex followes later that night.

Brillient!!!

[codeMonkey]

For completeness, another possibility is mentioned in this thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36745) by AnimS. Using the tracker.cfg file to specify folders that you don't want indexed/tracked/thumbnailed.

[benny1967]

For completeness, another possibility is mentioned in this thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36745) by AnimS. Using the tracker.cfg file to specify folders that you don't want indexed/tracked/thumbnailed.

Seems the way to go... if it works, which I haven't tried. ;)

EDIT:
Try to play with this section... looks promising:
[Watches]
# List of directory roots to index and watch (separator=;)
WatchDirectoryRoots=$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/;$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/;$HOME/MyDocs/.videos/;$HOME/MyDocs/.images/;$HOME/MyDocs/.camera/;
# List of directory roots to index but NOT watch (separator=;)
CrawlDirectory=
# List of directory roots NOT to index and NOT to watch (separator=;)
NoWatchDirectory=$HOME/MyDocs/core-dumps/;$HOME/MyDocs/cities/;$HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/;$HOME/MyDocs/tmp/;/media/mmc1/tmp/;/media/mmc1/cities/;
# Set to false to completely disable any watching
EnableWatching=true


Look how they include $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/ but exclude $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/
You could do the same, have $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/ in the "watch"-list (where it is now), create a new folder "private" in there and then include $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/private to the NoWatchDirectory= line.

[Venomrush]

Renaming extension isn't implemented in File Manager..
Apparently it's out of scope for this sort of file management function in File Manager

It'll be implemented but you have to wait at least until Harmattan

If you want it, complain, by filing in Brainstorm and spam vote :) or ask someone nicely to write a plugin

[d-iivil]

Seems the way to go... if it works, which I haven't tried. ;)

EDIT:
Try to play with this section... looks promising:


Look how they include $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/ but exclude $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/
You could do the same, have $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/ in the "watch"-list (where it is now), create a new folder "private" in there and then include $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/private to the NoWatchDirectory= line.

This tip is good and working one. Allthough you need to clear up the tracker-database after doing this or MediaPlayer will show your thumbnails even the video doesn't exists on the original folder anymore (at least I had to do that to get thumbnails removed from media player).

[Pedrolot]

Sorry to hijack, something quite similer.


How does one go around hidding .desktop files?

I can get the images to become 'hidden' bu the .desktop files still remain visable in the .Images folder?

I have hidden in the file set to true.

[crenquis]

EmelFM2 file manager will rename the files however you want (don't recall if it handles .xxx files, but it does let you rename extensions)
The Maemo5 version is still in the Extras-devel repository so it is not quite ready, but once it makes it into "extras" I would recommend installing it.

The tracker method pointed to by codeMonkey appears to be the cleanest solution to hiding media files that you don't want indexed.

[jeweladdict]

way to take one for the team OP :D
glad I didn't have to ask this one ;)

[Ack-Ack]

does anyone know of a straightfwd method of playing a hidden video with the default player that doesnt involve unhiding the directory?

[egoshin]

Seems the way to go... if it works, which I haven't tried. ;)

EDIT:
Try to play with this section... looks promising:


Look how they include $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/ but exclude $HOME/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones/
You could do the same, have $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/ in the "watch"-list (where it is now), create a new folder "private" in there and then include $HOME/MyDocs/.videos/private to the NoWatchDirectory= line.

Correction - folder better to be NOT ".video". See comments to bug 8165 - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8165#c7

[felbutss]

the question was answered in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36395


you can also view all folder including hidden holders in your browser.

just type in your browser file:///home/user/mydocs

[misterm]

I have also mentioned this for the image/gallery viewer. It finds all images on the phone. I'd installed some WRT (web runtime toolkit) HTML samples with images and it cluttered up my imageviewer. I have allready suggested this in 'update fixes', to be able to have a set folder for these kind of apps, like images or video, for display in their viewers/managers.

[jamiefuller]

I got my n900 on friday and one of the first apps i installed was Truecrypt. i have a 3.5gig encrypted container on my sd card that i use to store my 'delicates'

this is much better than just hiding as it totally encrypts them so if you lose your phone the data is still safe.

best of all its crossplatform. I can plugin my phone and mount the container in windows or linux and transfer directly to the encrypted container.

[akx]

There's a very simple solution that doesn't require modifying any files and allows you to view the files through the normal File Manager application.

(1) Put your files in a folder named Private.
(2) Done.

The default Tracker configuration exempts directories named Private from indexing, so they don't show up in Tracker-using software (media player, photos, etc).

[berty]

Thanks. Just what I was looking for.

[Hardknox]

You can use my simple bash swap script (you can run it from xterm or desktop shortcut)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40582&highlight=media+protect&page=2

[Neegs]

There's a very simple solution that doesn't require modifying any files and allows you to view the files through the normal File Manager application.

(1) Put your files in a folder named Private.
(2) Done.

The default Tracker configuration exempts directories named Private from indexing, so they don't show up in Tracker-using software (media player, photos, etc).

Do you know when this was implemented as i was f'ing about for ages trying different methods (when i first got the phone a few months back). each time the pics were still viewable. However when trying it out i created a folder called private which i was going to house the pics but still no joy

Just seen you post and retested and now it hides the images from the image viewer. i SWEAR to which ever deity you want that this did not work when i orignally tried it.

all in all great news just confused the hell out of me. This option definitely works. however it does not stop people changing the private folder. im just going to bury this someone that no one will find it. sweet now i can show people the pics on my phone whithout having to hold the phone myself lol