[mythtv-users] mplayer, xine, internal player?!
Rich West
Rich.West at wesmo.com
Thu Dec 28 18:35:27 UTC 2006
Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> On 12/28/06, *Rich West* <Rich.West at wesmo.com
> <mailto:Rich.West at wesmo.com>> wrote:
>
> This may sound kind of silly, but how do you know what player is being
> used for what purpose by mythtv?
>
> The reason I ask is that when I view any torrent downloaded video
> or if
> I try to view the stuff I frantically pulled off of my DirecTivo
> (which,
> while it ends in .ty, it's really an mpeg2 stream), it seems to be
> using
> another player (guessing xine) than the one that is used for
> displaying
> livetv, recorded programs, or video (such as a DVD iso) because
> 80% of
> my remote buttons don't work.
>
> Since I don't know what player it is using, I can't seem to get my
> .lircrc set up properly..
>
>
> Go into "Utilities / Setup -> Setup -> Media Settings -> Videos
> Settings -> Player Settings".
>
> That's where the default player is defined. You can change it to
> "Internal" to use the same playback code as is used for recorded
> programs, but it can't handle everything that xine or mplayer can.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
Cool. It took me a moment with the menus, then you got a "ahhh.. all
right.. now I get it..." out of me. :)
Thanks!
-Rich
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