[mythtv] WinTV PVR-250 (hardware mpeg encoder)

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 02:44 pm, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:27:51PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > Uh, sure.  There's absolutely no need for mythtv to support playing DVDs
> > natively, though.  There's plenty of other programs that it can just exec
> > for that.
>
> Well, is there any reason for mythtv to have its own player to begin with?
> You could use something like mplayer and gain support for many video
> formats, along with DVD's and VCD's. I believe I saw a patch out there for
> mplayer to play the MythTV videos in the FAQ.

Of course.  The biggest of which is that I would need to customize at least 
some parts of whatever was used, and to take mplayer as an example, I'm not 
touching _anything_ with a 3,000 line main() function.

As it stands, I've got an extremely lightweight player, a file format that I 
can add whatever I need to, and complete control over the code.  None of 
which are really doable by just calling some random external player.

Isaac