[mythtv-users] Re:Developer suggestion for MythInternetRadio?

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 02:06 pm, Alan Snyder wrote:
> DUH.  Realized after sending that mythmusic calls
> decoding libraries, not mplayer.  So the pass-to-
> mplayer (or aplay or ...) is like mythvideo not
> mythmusic.  Since radio playing doesn't logically
> belong with video, a separate module, with
> a database table of urls, station names and
> decoder options makes the most sense.

mythmusic is not a frontend to other programs, and will not become a frontend 
to other programs.  Handling other audio formats is _not_ difficult, 
especally as we're already linking against libavcodec which supports pretty 
much everything.

Isaac