[mythtv-users] Myth using xine not mplayer

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 21 17:10:10 UTC 2007


Lord Darkhelmet wrote:
> Myth is setup under "Utilities / Setup -> Setup -> Media Settings -> 
> Videos Settings -> Player Settings"  to use mplayer  -  mplayer -fs 
> -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
> but whenever I start playing a video (mpeg4 in avi container)  xine is 
> the player that starts up and plays it.  Why would use a program that is 
> not assigned as the default?   Mplayer is installed correctly as I can 
> play any video with mplayer from command line.  Any ideas ?
>
> Dean.
>   

Take a look at the video file types page. The file extension for your 
file is probably listed there with xine listed as the default player.


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