[mythtv-users] Recordings player

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 01:03:17 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 MeythVideo 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.

well, yes, but he wants to use VLC over the internal player, this is
really the only way to do it.

--
Steve


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