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

[Peter Schachte]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/02/2008 02:17 AM, Peter Schachte wrote:
>> Stuart Morgan wrote:
>>   
>>> I would however like to discuss what improvements need 
>>> to be made in the internal player, why are people still using external 
>>> players?
>> One advantage of external players is that they're scriptable.  Eg, I could
>> configure my myth video player to be a script that would do some bookeeping
>> or whatever before actually playing the video.  Last time I asked (on the
>> user list), there wasn't a way to launch the internal player from a shell
>> script.  I actually want to use this to prompt the user to insert a DVD, and
>> then launch the internal player to play the video from there.
> 
> Then again, Myth could add support for offline videos...

That would be nice, but just being able to invoke the player from a script 
would be more flexible.  If there were a command for the telnet port that took 
a file name and started the internal player to view it, that would allow anyone 
to add support for offline videos, and lots of other features, as simple scripts.