[mythtv-users] Internal Video player

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Tue Jan 13 08:55:19 EST 2004


Thanks. I tried this on a couple DVDs that I had ripped. The video works
great, but I have no sound. When I ripped I did not select AC3 and
changed the audio to DTS. Should the internal player be able to do this?

Thanks,
James

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 02:55, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 02:38, James Pifer wrote:
> > As a user of the PVR350 and using the TVOut I've been watching this
> > thread with interest. If the player for MythVideo (and maybe MythDVD) is
> > made "internal", would that mean A/V would go out through the PVR350's
> > TVOut (via ivtv drivers) like it does with LiveTV and recordings? 
> > 
> > Obviously I mean without going through the extra configuration of a
> > separate player with patches (like mplayer), etc. I was able to get the
> > video going out through the TVOut by the patch available from the ivtv
> > list, but still can't get the sound or remote working correctly with
> > mplayer. 
> > 
> > I'm not so much interested in mythdvd yet, but I would like to have a
> > mythvideo library, but I would like it to work like LiveTV and
> > recordings as far as the TVOut. 
> 
> If you don't need AC3 but want to play standard mpeg1/2 files (like
> VCD/SVCD/XVCD/XSVCD stuff) then you can simply use 'mythtv %s' as a
> player command. Works nicely here.
> 
> Torsten



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