[mythtv-users] Internal Video player

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:51, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> 
> How does this approach tie in with the Myth keybindings, etc?  I'm just 
> curious because I think it's a great idea, but why use xine-lib (other 
> than the obvious reason that you get DVD menu navigation)?  I'd have 
> thought it would be much easier to just use Myth's natvie player (which 
> can theoretically play any multimedia format supported by ffmpeg/
> libavcodec/libavformat) (try 'mythtv <filename>') and tweak it to 
> handle playing files external to Myth (i.e., no Myth metadata in the 
> database, like resolution, and no Myth seektable).


The key bindings while using the xine based player are the same keys as 
watching a recording in myth.  Xine-lib doesn't deal with input, that 
gets handled by whatever ui you're running, in this case a qt widget 
inside a mythdialog.

Aside from the fact that mythtv doesn't play DVDs, CDs or streaming 
media, I'm fairly certain that xine-lib handles quite a few more codecs 
for general file formats.  Not to mention it's very estensible with it's 
plugin architecture. Once we've got xine-lib integrated completely we 
benefit from it's ongoing development for "free".