<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Peter <<a href="mailto:siegelpeter@gmx.at">siegelpeter@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Brad DerManouelian schrieb:<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">> On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:55 AM, Peter wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> I was wondering why mythtv was handling the recordings and the<br>>> mythvideo<br>>> playback differently. Why aren't mythvideos streamed to the frontend<br> >> the<br>>> same way like recordings?<br>>><br>><br>> No one has gotten to implementing that, yet. Also, not all people are<br>> happy with the built-in player for videos so allowing external players<br> > is how it's going to have to be until all the functionality is there<br>> and bugs are all worked out. If videos are tied to streaming from the<br>> backend, you would be tied to using the internal player.<br> ><br></div>isn't mplayer able to play videos, piped using stdin?</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>What does mplayer have to do with the Internal player in this case?</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>He's saying that streaming from the backend wouldn't necessarily tie the player to the internal player since mplayer (and probably others) could read video from whatever the backend sends. I imagine it's possible, but would take extra work that would be better spent getting the internal player up to the task of playing all the videos.</div></body></html>