[mythtv-users] Xine and MythTV

[Julian Edwards]

Eloy A. Paris wrote:

>Xavier Hervy <maxpower44 at tiscali.fr> writes:
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>>Why did you prefer mplayer to play video tha xine ?
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>Not because of a technical reason, I guess.
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>I got used to using mplayer for playing videos. It does that very
>well, so I never had a need to look at another player. However, when I
>tried mplayer for watching DVDs I didn't like it, so I tried xine and I
>liked it.
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>I guess xine does as well as mplayer for playing videos, so, as I
>mentioned, there might not be a technical reason to prefer one over the
>other.
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>Eloy.-
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Are Xine or Ogle able to do SPDIF pass through to the sound card?  I've 
got an Audigy 2 and set the mplayer command line up as in Jarod's guide 
and having Dolby Digital output is a must for me.  But if the other two 
apps can do it I'd be happy to move over to get the menus.

J.