[mythtv-users] What happened to the standalone player?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What happened to the standalone player?


On 11/16/2009 11:15 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> 2009/11/16 Christopher Meredith:
>   
>> I used to be able to use the command 'mythtv foo.mkv' to play media
>> with the MythTV player, apart from the full frontend. I would use this
>> to test playback profiles as well as set A/V sync values for mkvmerge.
>> I lost this somewhere along the way. Was it removed for some reason or
>> is there something wrong with my install (from source)?
>>     
> In 0.22 and later, it's called 'mythavtest'.

>Because it's not a standalone player so much as a MythTV Audio/Video testing application.

Is there a syntax for this that allows this test player to play a file from another Linux box on the LAN, e.g. 

mythavtest file:{IPADDRESS}/parent/child/file.mpg 

which does not seem to work.

Also can this receive a udp (or other?) stream direct from a DVB-T Hdhomerun over the LAN?