<DIV>Stupid question , hope no one takes offense here. Is using the internel myth player documented ? I may have missed something along the way. I'll re-read. </DIV>
<DIV>Personally I'd like to see it handle mpeg-2's divx and dvd's. </DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart<BR><BR><B><I>"J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan@jdonavan.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Jason Ferrara wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>> On Jan 10, 2004, at 8:55 AM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:<BR>>><BR>>>> The main obstacle to using the Myth internal player is just hooking <BR>>>> everything up. Myth currently depends on its own metadata in the <BR>>>> database for things like the seektable, cutlists, and (not sure on <BR>>>> this) video size/resolution. But, the *hard* work (decoding the <BR>>>> file/stream) has already been done by ffmpeg.<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>><BR>>> Yep and after I looked at it, it's less of a hassle to use the <BR>>> internal player than it is the xine-lib. Once I'm done with this <BR>>> refactoring, we'll be able to play media using either a true internal <BR>>> player, one or more media player plugins or one or more
external apps.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Will the internal player handle DVD menus?<BR><BR><BR>Nor right away no... BUT if you have my MythXine plugin you can specify <BR>that to be used for DVD playback and you will get DVD menus. Ideally, <BR>the built in Myth player will eventually be able to handle everything <BR>that MythXine can but it's not there yet. Hopefully, these changes will <BR>cause an itch in folks and they'll take up fixing the Myth player so <BR>that it handles all the formats it's supposed to handle properly and add <BR>DVD menu support.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing list<BR>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</BLOCKQUOTE>