[mythtv-users] Samba for LiveTV?

[Robert Johnston]

On 5/22/06, Andy Foster <fostandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ... from what I understand DSMyth provides 2 things a
> > .nuv codec, which you don't need because you're using a hardware encoder,
> > and the myth:// URI handler.  Which basically just tells windows to open
> > myth:// URI links with Media player or VLC or whatever you want, similar to
> > the way that it knows to use Firefox to open http:// links or ftp:// in
> > whatever ftp program/web browser you want.
>
> this of course basically leads to the crux of what I've pondered for a
> while now: getting windows to recognise myth:// URI's and dispatch
> them to an application is one thing. Getting that application itself
> to recognise the myth:// URI seems like an entirely different matter.
> I would really really really really like to know how to achieve the
> latter, or for someone to correct my skewed understanding.
>
> To put it another way: how does the media player of choice (vlc, wmp,
> mpc, zplayer, whatever) become able to distinguish myth:// uri's from
> something nonsensical like asdfasdf:// ? I do not think these players
> have been designed with the ability to handle myth:// uris in the same
> way firefox has been for http:// etc.

And this is what the "DSmyth" filters/program is designed to do. It
creates the myth: protocol handler for Media Player.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston