[mythtv-users] Playback with xine?

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 02:12:18 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 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.
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Can you link your bug reports and sample submissions for those files?

Robert


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