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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/02/2008 02:17 AM, Peter Schachte wrote:
> Stuart Morgan wrote:
>   
>> I would however like to discuss what improvements need 
>> to be made in the internal player, why are people still using external 
>> players?
> One advantage of external players is that they're scriptable.  Eg, I could
> configure my myth video player to be a script that would do some bookeeping
> or whatever before actually playing the video.  Last time I asked (on the
> user list), there wasn't a way to launch the internal player from a shell
> script.  I actually want to use this to prompt the user to insert a DVD, and
> then launch the internal player to play the video from there.

Then again, Myth could add support for offline videos...

Mike