[mythtv-users] Using mythbuntu with VLC

[Leo Butler]

Yes, you can use VLC, but you need to have those videos accessible to
VLC. The easiest way (?) is to network mount the relevant directories on
your frontend and have a script munge the myth://hostname/path/to/video
uri into a file://local/path/to/video uri that vlc can use as in the
wiki page you refer to.

Leo


Alan Buxton <alan at arrial.com> writes:

> Ok so does this mean that I can’t use VLC with mythtv to play back videos? 
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> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC makes it seem like this is supported, though when I follow those instructions I get this error.
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> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Giggins
> Sent: 23 February 2017 21:23
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Using mythbuntu with VLC
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> On 24 February 2017 at 07:18, Alan Buxton <alan at arrial.com <mailto:alan at arrial.com> > wrote:
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> Dear all
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> I’m trying to use VLC with mythtv (mythbuntu 16.04).
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> But when I try to use it to run a sample video I get the following error message appearing in VLC:
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> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'myth://<hostname>/SampleVideo_1280x720_1mb.mkv'. Check the log for details.
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> Any inspiration?
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> Correct, VLC does not support mythtv protocol,
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> Anthony 
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