[mythtv-users] Recordings player

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 23:54:04 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/04/2006 04:17 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>
> >On 4/4/06, Stuart Fox <stuart at dontuse.ms> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is there any way to change the default recorded programs player?
> >>I'd like to switch it to vlc if possible, I use that as my default video
> >>player.
> >>
> >>Not sure if its possible with the new livetv changes in 0.19.
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>Stuart
> >>
> >>--
> >>The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
> >>capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
> >>labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
> >>
> >>
> >heed the signature...
> >
> >
> >sure, install mythvideo, link it to your recordings folder and tell
> >mythvideo to use VLC.
> >
>
> I think he was talking about "recordings"--not "videos."  MythVideo
> plays "videos" (generally things that Myth didn't record) using any
> media player you want.  MythTV plays "recordings" (generally things that
> Myth did record) using the "Internal" player (which, BTW, can be
> specified as the player for MythVideo), which is code in MythTV that
> plays videos.  MythTV does /not/ use an external player for playing
> recordings.
>
> Mike

yea, but theres no reason you couldn't use MythVideo to play back your
recordings.

--
Steve


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