[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/23/2010 14:44, Yaron wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> He's talking about TV /recordings/ not random videos.  The Internal 
>> player works better for them than any external player.
>
> And I'm talking about personal preference.

Recordings use a number of features that will only exist in a dedicated 
application. It has to support management of livetv sessions. It has to 
support files of changing length. It has to support playback of content 
streamed over myth protocol. It should support pulling of metadata from 
the database. It should support editing of the cutpoints for commercial 
clipping. It should support reading of skiplists for commercial skipping.

Supporting an external player would be anything but a trivial exercise. 
By the time you get done adding all this stuff into your player of 
choice, and making the proper changes to mythfrontend to allow the two 
to interface properly, it would have been far easier to simply fix 
playback of whatever files are giving you troubles in the internal player.

Just a heads up, the shift in MythVideo to using storage groups and 
allowing remote access rather than relying on NFS, will likely result in 
the removal of external player support.