[mythtv-users] avi playback in myth gallery

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 25 14:42:44 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 24 January 2006 19:00, mike choy wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:16, mike choy wrote:
> >> cardboil wrote:
> >>> Joseph, what player does your Mythgallery use?  Internal or an
> >>> external one like mplayer or xine?
> >>>
> >>> On 1/24/06, *Joseph A. Caputo* < jcaputo1 at comcast.net
> >>> <mailto:jcaputo1 at comcast.net>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     On Monday 23 January 2006 18:04, mike choy wrote:
> >>>     > I've just got one of those fancy Exilim cameras that can
> >>>     > record movies in mpeg 4 onto the SD card
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Any way I can play these from inside Myth Gallery?
> >>>     > Nice thumbnail would also be cool. I notice that the
> >>>     > thumbnail currently shows a movie is there
> >>>     > so I assume that myth knows.
> >>>
> >>>     What version are you running?  AFAIK MythGallery plays movie
> >>>     clips... at
> >>>     least it does in SVN.  Not sure what formats are supported,
> >>> though... my camera does QuickTime, and they play just fine. 
> >>> Also the thumbnail shows a frame from the movie.
> >>
> >> Cool
> >> I'm running 0.18.1  so cant wait for 0.19 which is any day now.
> >> would be interested in the player thing also.
> >
> > As noted in another post, I think this *should* be working in 0.18.
> > Check your MythGallery settings for the player command.
> >
> Hmm
>
> tried both these lines but no go.
> "mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -v xv %s".
>  "xine -pfhq --no-splash %s"
>
> I'm going to bed will have a look manana

Try playing them outside of Myth to see what command line works for you.  
Maybe you don't have the right codec(s) installed?

-JAC


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