[mythtv-users] DVD & Videos

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Brian M. Bennett wrote:

> Every time I try to play a DVD or an MPEGII video via the videos menu 
> item in Myth, I get messages saying that it can not find the config 
> file for mplayer. I looked in the path that where the error massages 
> states that it is looking for the config file and sure enough…. No 
> config file. What is contained in this file and how do I generate one? 
> As uf now, playing DVDs and watching mpeg2 videos is the only thing I 
> can not do with my Myth install! I am very pleased thus far and really 
> want to get this working 100%. Thanks for any help.
>

You could look on the mplayer site and find out what is supposed to go 
in there and how to make one... The config file is not required to use 
mplayer though.