[mythtv-users] Changing default player to vlc doesn't take.

[John Pilkington]

On 04/06/15 00:53, A. F. Cano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New myth installation on an ECS Liva/Debian Jessie (Myth 0.27.4+fixes from
> deb-multimedia).  This was a minimal installation, no add-ons and left all
> defaults as much as possible.  The video files go into /video/mythtv.
>
> Since I discovered that vlc can play at higher speeds without cutting off
> the sound (what a time saver for talk shows!) the default player seems
> crippled, so I looked around and found this:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1560009
>
> but it's 5 years old so I suspect the problems discussed shouldn't apply.

Not sure about the reason for using vlc.  mythfrontend does fast 
playback too; it's called Time Stretch, selected from a keyboard by 
hitting 'A'.    ?
>
> This official page:
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC
>
> gives the procedure.  I tried both: "vlc file://%s vlc://quit" and
> "vlc %s vlc://quit" (Setup -> Media Settings -> Videos Settings ->
> Player Settings: Default Player): Same result.  The change didn't
> seem to take, the default/builtin player is still used.  I don't want
> to hard-wire any of the vlc options as described in this page; vlc
> works just fine as it is outside of myth.  Myth works just fine with
> the default/internal player.
>
> What am I missing?  I see no error messages being generated by either the
> frontend or backend.  Is anyone running vlc as the default player
> successfully?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> A.
>
> PS: I'm really happy with the performance of the Liva.  I'm currently using
> a so-so monitor (1280x1024) but I can't max out cpu usage even when watching
> 1080i at higher speeds than normal (with vlc).  The kernel seems to do a great
> job using the 2 cores (per the kde system load viewer applet).  1080i with
> the default player also leaves some cpu headroom.  I gather that the meterial
> is being transcoded on the fly to the lower (720p) resolution I can display.
> Compared to the old system (1.4GHz single core and nvidia 4200 GPU) that
> couldn't keep up with 720p, this is a vast improvement.  I only have one
> tuner (OTA) but the backend is also on this system.