[mythtv] MythVideo Feature Request: Player Profiles

[David Zanetti]

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I thought I'd post my idle thoughts here before charging off on attacking
a patch to implement this, so if this idea sucks shout out and I'll go off
and hide :)

One of the things I end up doing a lot with MythVideo is editing the
command-lines for each file by hand. Mostly it's because occasionally I
get files for which just feeding it to mplayer doesn't do the right thing,
either the aspect is off, or the sound is skewed, or it's a really bad
file and needs a bunch of options to fix it.

Thing is, it's also a pain to do this because the only reasonable way is
by keyboard, it's not something I can quickly change from my IR remote for
any given file. 

So, what I was thinking of was changing the way MythVideo handles playback
command lines so that instead of every file having a unique command line,
instead you associated files with a "playback profile", and that profile
contained the details of how to play it.

Dovetailing into the internal player discussion, I figure you'd need
different player types, like "Internal" and "Custom Command", but it would
allow you to have a nice remote-friendly pane for say setting common
mplayer arguments, with an "mplayer" player type (which might include some
useful switches for things like -delay, -ni, -aspect, and -[no]cache,
etc..).

That way, it's much much easier for people to quickly associate a file
with something other than just feeding it to the default command. If I've
got a file which needs to be forced to 4:3 I can quickly select my named
"mplayer 4:3" profile and we're away laughing, instead of finding the
keyboard and typing in the full command on every file. 

I guess for some people it doesn't occur often enough to warrant a big
interface, but I do it often enough it's really bugging me. 

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