[mythtv-users] Playback with xine?

[jedi]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:51:42AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> *sets mind to thinking* - is it logical to restrict users to Internal
> >> for recordings when freedom of choice is give in mythvideo?
> >
> > External players for recordings/Live TV is the LAST thing I would want
> > to see, personally.  I'd be happier seeing external player support go
> > away in MythVideo.  I've made the case for such before but (as I am
> > likely about to hear) people would fuh-reak out.
> >
> > External player support is a legacy option from when the internal
> > player had limited codec and container support.  In many MANY ways
> > now, the internal player is more capable than even mplayer, and
> > maintains the look and feel of myth throughout.  There are lots of
> > people who use (or moved in the past to) an external player because of
> > this reason, or because of a tiny bit of extra speed you can eke out
> > of a player with a more limited OSD/which does not read-write a
> > seektable/etc.  With the dawning of multithreaded/hardware accelerated
> > playback, this is becoming less and less relevant.    Then there's the
> > crowd who have minor issues with a container format (I'm looking at
> > *you*, MKV) who switch to get proper seeking *without* ever making an
> > effort to get the seeking fixed in MythTV (the MKV file is
> > semi-broken, a stream copy into a fresh container will fix seeking).
> > Yeah, I have some strong feelings on the matter.  I'd love to see the
> > external player support done away with entirely when playback becomes
> > trivial.
> >
> > Oh, and I want to see framegrabber support/support for PVR-350 video
> > out go away too.
> >
> > FLAME ON!
> >
> > Robert
> >
> 
> Likewise I knew my post would not be uncontroversial :-)
> 
> I tried to switch mythvideo to Internal some time ago and it didn't
> work for a significant number of avi files let alone mkv's, so I

     Nevermind the frills. The internal player has problems just playing
stuff. It's pretty easy to throw something that will make it puke or
generate results that will make you want to puke. Being able to use
a different player in mythvideo is VERY handy.

     Lack of bookmarks is a minor nuissance but you can't argue with
files that don't play right.

[deletia]

     Removing the external player feature in mythvideo seems to be a 
dubious benefit and an obvious loss.