[mythtv-users] Window focus issue in mythvideo

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Mar 16 15:31:39 UTC 2011


On 3/16/2011 09:10, francis3 wrote:
> * Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  [150311, 19:56]:
>> On 3/15/2011 18:14, francis3 wrote:
>>> The video default player command is set to
>>> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
>> Change your video player command to 'Internal'.
> Sounds more like a workaround than a fix but ... it works!
> :-)
>
> I'm very familiar with the MPlayer player, but until the window focus
> issue will be solved i'll stay with the internal player.

On the contrary.  Use of mplayer in MythTV is a work around for 
deficiencies in the internal player.  It is a work around that is likely 
to be removed, or at least highly limited, in future versions of MythTV.


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