[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4222: Update MythMusic to continue playing in the background after exiting it.

[Robin Gilks]

> On Sunday 30 December 2007 21:15:57 MythTV wrote:
>>  Miniplayer stops and resumes playback if internal player is used to
>> play
>>  videos in MythVideo. But if external app (e.g. mplayer) is used for
>>  playback this does not happen. Would it be possible to at least stop
>> the
>>  music playback.. not sure how easy it would be to do the resume also?
>
> Just to play the devils advocate, but it would probably be simpler if we
> just
> phased out support for external playback applications.  Apart from some
> seeking issues with Matroska what formats remain that the internal player
> can't handle?
> --
> Stuart Morgan

A lot of the DIVX (avi) subset of codecs have problems on the Via VLD
video driver with colour inversion and/or very bad pixelation - this means
that (for me at least) for a lot of videos, mplayer is the only option.


-- 
Robin Gilks