[mythtv-users] Anyone using xine or ogle with Mythtv?

[jose rubio]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:45, Romel Llarena wrote:
> Now that I have my MythTV box running, I started
> playing around with the different options. Realized
> that MythDVD doesn't support DVD menues.

Ok, let me stop you right here. Myth itself does not handle dvd's.  Myth
uses another aplication to play dvd's and, by default (IIRC) it uses
mplayer which does not support menus.

> 
> After doing a search on the list, it appears my
> options are either xine or ogle.

IMHO both of these are better than mplayer and "free-er" also.

> 
> From what I've read, xine is something of a hack to
> work Myth and DVD menus, which leaves ogle. One of the
> posts that I read is that while ogle supports menus,
> the poster wasn't sure if it supported some DVD
> playback options such as FF or skip.
> 

Are you trying to start a flame war?  just kidding... Whatever gave you
the impression that "xine is something of a hack to work with myth"??
It is right there in the frontend setup under dvd->playback (methink)
where you see mplayer, just highlight it and hit the "->" key to cycle
trough the options.  Now, I think the toughest part is to compile xine. 
good luck with that and ask our questions regarding that to the xine
people :-)



> Anyhow, has anyone gotten ogle to work to their
> satisfaction? If so, could you please post
> instructions on how you got it running on your box. I
> imagine it's a matter of pulling the install down and
> modifying the player settings from mplayer to ogle.
> I'm sure there is LOTs of detail that I have missed or
> would have missed if I performed this install solo.
> 
> Thanks!


-jose-