[mythtv-users] Recordings player

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 00:37:27 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

But it *would* be a pain to have toscan for new videos every time you
wanted to watch a new recording.


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