<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Igor Cicimov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icicimov@gmail.com">icicimov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>I get ya. So why is it not working for me? I agree its a useful feature but I get the message from Mplayer, which is my primary choice of player, that cant open the stream. Do i need to set up anything else for this to work? Maybe need to switch to Internal player?</p>
</blockquote><div>Bingo - Storage Groups aren't supported by external players.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that I didn't say "Storage Groups don't support external players" - MythTV passes a perfectly valid URI for the video, but it's up to the player to know what to do with it. AFAIK, none do.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you want to use external players, you'll have to use the old local-mount-based video setup, and be aware that external player support is likely to be entirely removed for 0.26 (as last I heard, anyway)</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Chris</div></div>