[mythtv] Old Mythvideo application, help needed

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Nathan Poznick
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Old Mythvideo application, help needed
>
>
> Thus spake Joseph A. Caputo:
> > Yes, but the old mythvideo application had (1) the ability to
> use different
> > top-level directories (specified as a command-line argument, and (2) the
> > ability to specify different helper applications based on file
> extension.
>
> I've been thinking that what mythvideo needs next is a method for
> specifying a different player for any given file (and the ability to
> hand-edit the video information if desired.)  It could be done as simply
> as providing a keybinding for the screens to bring up the text boxes for
> editing... Leaving the helper app blank would make it use the default.
> That way I could once again do something I did with the old mythvideo,
> and create an empty file called PlayVCD.vcd (or something), and when it
> was selected, have mythvideo launch mplayer to play whatever is in the
> cdrom drive as a VCD.
>
> On the other hand, if all that is already done and I'm just not bright
> enough to know it, I'm happy to be proved wrong :-)

Well, to achieve that, you could (a) submit a patch, or (b) write a generic
script that parsed the file extension and called an appropriate helper app,
then make the script the main helper app for mythvideo.  Not an elegant,
integrated solution, but it should work.

-JAC