[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4222: Update MythMusic to continue playing in the background after exiting it.

[Stuart Morgan]

On Monday 31 December 2007 09:09:59 Petr Stehlik wrote:
> I use xine for DVD ISO images (does the internal player handle ISO yet?)

Yes, for a very long time.

> and also for DivX with external subtitles and/or non 4:3 aspect ratio -
> xine lets me choose which subtitle file to pick up and what character
> decoding to use when displaying it as well as force the correct aspect
> ratio (I got a bunch of SVCD resolution DivX files - i.e. 352x576 where
> I want to force 4:3 aspect ratio).
>
> The internal player could handle all of this if there were command line
> parameters for specifying the subtitle file, its encoding and the aspect
> ratio.

It can already handle external subtitle files and force the aspect ratio. See 
either the OSD menu, or appearance settings where you can force different 
aspect ratios for different video dimensions.

I'm not sure about the character encoding issue, but you might just try it and 
find out whether we already handle that automatically.
-- 
Stuart Morgan