[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 15:22:46 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Removal of external player support still seems like a significant loss
>> of functionality to me.
>
> I agree.  I've been trying to wrap my head around this for the last
> day and I just see this as a lose lose proposition.
>
> With external player support, I can, if I like, set the player to be
> /bin/bash and have the video be a shell script to do just about
> anything.  I mean, I could get today's MythVideo launch DOSEMU to run
> a '90's era demo scene "video" if I like.  When will the internal
> player support that?
>
> Eric

Not only that, if everything needs to use SGs and myth proto, I can no
longer even play files directly off the hard drive of my standalone
frontend...something I do all the time...if I'm understanding this
correctly.

Tom


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