[mythtv-users] mythfontend/Mac OS X/play videos?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:20 PM, charles at lesburg.com wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> One of my MythTV frontends is an iMac (20" LCD; really nice!).  I
>> am using a precompiled mythfrontend which I found on the web.
>> Watching live TV and previously recorded bits is fine.  However, I
>> don't get any sound when I try to play mp4 video files using the
>> internal video player.  When I try to use mplayer or VCD as the
>> command, nothing happens at all.  I can open the mp4 files using
>> QuickTime, or MPlayer, or VCD from the normal window manager.
>>
>> Is there anyone on the list who uses a Mac (OS X 10.3.9) frontend.
>> If so, can you provide recommendations for setting up for video
>> watching?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>
> Try launching mplayer from the command line. It will act the same
> from there as when launching it from myth. Once you get it working
> from a shell, use the same command in myth. Keep in mind the mplayer
> binary is in a location like this: /Applications/MPlayer OS X 2.app/
> Contents/Resources/mplayer.app/Contents/MacOS/mplayer not /
> Applications/MPlayer OS X 2.app/Contents/Resources/mplayer.app
>
> -Brad

Oh, and also keep in mind that myth does not stream videos. You have  
to mount the video directory onto your mac and point to the video  
file in the share when you launch mplayer. This is the same for  
music, as well.