[mythtv-users] Playback with xine?

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:12:18PM -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:
>> 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?
>
>    It's only a problem because you want to make it a problem.
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It's not a problem at all, my files all play fine.  :)

But you'd be helping yourself and others if you submit reports w/ logs
and samples...

Robert