[mythtv-users] can I use xine (VeXP) instead of mplayer in myth?

[and]

Thanks Joseph for the detailed explanation. -and everyone else for 
their friendly feedback.

I'm sorry if I'm really dense and apologize it I haven't understood the 
previous feedback, it just wasn't clear to me from the feedback, the 
documentation or the list that that MythTV uses it's own code for the 
TV playback and I was therefore just assuming it was using a separate 
player like mythvideo and mythdvd does. I now understand much better 
how some of the myth internal work and that mythtv is not just a really 
nice and complete user experience on top of an existing player.

As to my asking about VeXP, the benefits of using hardware mpg 
acceleration is pretty obvious to all of us, but I also understand that 
not everyone is using the epia board (from the sound in the list it's a 
minority), so I would not presume to ask the probably quite large 
effort (unless via will give access to their mpg code) be put into this 
specific hardware as I'm personally not able to do it.

Maybe we are having a cultural conflict here, because I'm only asking 
out of interest as to capabilities, use and functionality and 
absolutely not to complain about the excellent work that has been 
created (one that I certainly wouldn't be able to make myself!).

On the other hand. How am I  or anyone else to know that something 
can't be done without asking? -the answer could just as likely have 
been that I just had to change something in a configuration or make 
file.

rgds
anders


  On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of and
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:20 PM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] can I use xine (VeXP) instead of mplayer 
>> in
>> myth?
>>
>>
>> Ahh.... I thought it did.
>> Could it be done in any other way than copying the recoded .nuv files
>> to the video directory and playing them with VeXP? -I'd also like to 
>> be
>> able to get the live tv through VeXP...
>> rgds
>> anders
>
> Well, first of all, I see from your other messages that you have a 
> PVR-x50,
> correct?  If not, ignore the rest of this post.  The recordings 
> created by
> the PVR-x50 cards (assuming you're not transcoding them) are standard 
> MPEG-2
> files (the .nuv extension is misleading; it's just for convenience so 
> Myth
> knows they belong to it, they're really .mpeg files).  Any player 
> (mplayer,
> xine, etc) should be able to play them without a patch.  As far as 
> 'how'...
> you could just point your mythvideo storage directory to your MythTV
> recording directory, and all the files should show up in MythVideo.  
> You'll
> have to enter the metadata into the database manually, though; 
> otherwise all
> the files will show up with just the filenames
> (1026_20030826160000_20030826163000.nuv).
>
> As far as watching LiveTV goes, that's more complicated.  If VeXP/Xine 
> can
> read from your video device (probably /dev/video0), then you should be 
> able
> to watch the currently tuned stream.  However, you will lose Myth's
> time-shifting abilities.  Also, you'd have to come up with a way to 
> change
> channels with VeXP/Xine.
>
> If this is a Myth-only box, you're probably ok system-resource-wise is 
> you
> just go with the status quo; eventually, Myth will probably have native
> support for hardware MPEG-1/2 decoding (Isaac's note on the website
> indicates that the stars are nearly aligned for him to begin working on
> PVR-350 decoder support, and the VIA Epia stuff probably wouldn't be 
> too far
> behind).
>
> -JAC
>
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