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

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 13:52:43 UTC 2008


On 01/01/2008, Petr Stehlik <pstehlik at sophics.cz> wrote:
>
> Stuart Morgan píše v Po 31. 12. 2007 v 23:51 +0000:
> > Re-read what I wrote, these work automatically in the internal player.
> It will
> > select the subtitle file by looking for .sub, .srt or .txt files. I've
> no
> > idea if we look for preferred language codes in the filename, but that's
> an
> > easy thing to fix if we don't.
>
> OK, I'll give it a try and report back.
>
> > It can automatically select the correct aspect ratio for 352x576 videos
> too,
> > if you goto appearance settings, select "Separate video modes for gui &
> > playback" you can select different options for different video
> dimensions
> > which will then be used for all future viewings.
>
> Uhm, that doesn't sound well to me - I use the native LCD resolution for
> all video output (to keep the upscaling in Myth) so I never tried
> separating video modes for gui & playback.
>
> > Both work automatically without shell scripting in trunk. I didn't say
> that
> > the OSD was the only option.
>
> let's add some parameter passing to the 'Internal' player and it'll be
> even better ;-) (feature request without a patch)
>
> > P.S. I'd like to point out the "devils advocate" bit in my original
> post.
> > Although I'd ultimately like to see the external player support moved
> into
> > the background or even removed from mythtv, I'm not proposing it for
> 0.21 or
> > even the near future.
>
> You asked the right question. If people report valid reasons for not
> using the Internal player and the player gets improved thanks to that
> then the external players will soon be replaced by the Internal one.
>
> Petr
>
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Another reason....

mplayer, xine, etc... will play most files you throw at them and ffwd/rewind
without issue.  For the Internal player you have to make sure you have
pre-built a seek table for each file otherwise it doesn't ffwd/rewind at
all, or is very jumpy, and/or you get sound still playing while it does so.
I think most people are put off straight away when that doesn't work and
just switch to using an external player.  Once that part gets automated I
think more people will use it.  On a side note, any idea why myth needs the
seek table to be built when mplayer, xine, etc... don't have any problems at
all?  Only time I've been prompted by mplayer or xine to rebuld one
(assuming that's the same thing) is if I have a slightly broken avi file.
Aren't these stored in the file already?

Ash
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