[mythtv-users] howto switch video player back to mplayer fro internal player?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 22:17:32 UTC 2006


On 10/5/06, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Skurk <skurk at cox.net> wrote:
> > >>... I'll just use mplayer as before
> > >>instead of the internal player, but I can't find it in the setup.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > > ... go into Video Setup and type in your mplayer launch line
> > >in place of "Internal")
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > That's what I thought as well. I have mplayer including all the right
> > parameters setup on the launch line - still it uses the internal player.
>
> I have the exact same problem -- I edited the string for the default
> video player back to mplayer (+cmdline opts), I edited the individual
> filetype players back from "Internal" to "mplayer (+cmdline opts), but
> still it attempts to use the internal player.  I checked the "use
> default player" box for "avi" filetype after I'd set the default
> player to mplayer. Then I rebooted the box just for good measure.
> Still, mythvideo is trying to use the internal player.

whats your frontend log say?

I switched back and forth recently to see if Internal or mplayer
worked better with h264, worked fine.

-- 
Steve
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