[mythtv] Playing an avi or mpeg file inside MythTV

[Tom Lichti]

Greg Estabrooks wrote:
>> myth_system("mplay /home/neil/DVVV.AVI");
>>
>>
>> What should I do to exit the program gracefully.. I like to have a start, 
> 
> 
>  myth_system just spawns the mplay application just like it would if you were 
> running it on a commandline. Myth doesn't maintain any control over the
> spawned applications keyboard controls or graphical output. It would be 
> up to you to tell mplay to display in a specific window or to configure 
> it to exit when you wanted.
> 
>  What are you trying to do ?

I think more specifically, what are you trying to do that MythVideo 
can't already do?

Tom