[mythtv-users] Will the builtin player play MKVs these days?

[John Pilkington]

On 12/12/13 22:59, jedi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:48:42PM -0800, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On Dec 12, 2013, at 14:27, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> seamless branching BDs where
>>> all of the individual m2ts files are strung together in the MKV.
>>
>> You could just string those together in the m2ts, by concatenating them together with 'cat', although you're likely going to save a GB or two by repacking the into MKVs due to reduced container overhead.
>
>      That was the first thing I tried and it didn't work out.

I had this comment from Michael Stucky in July, after I had added his 
suggested mkv output option to my mythDVBcut script to enable it to cut 
HD mpeg recordings, with which the mplex remuxer apparently failed.

> I should have mentioned above, once the file is in an MKV container it is no longer in a format that MythTV considers a "recording". In other words, it is not editable or seekable as a recording. You need to use "mythexport" or some other script like that to move it to your MythTV Video library where you can play, fastforward, rewind, etc. as you would any imported video.

Is that still true?

John P