[mythtv-users] Internal Video player

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>The main obstacle to using the Myth internal player is just hooking everything 
>up.  Myth currently depends on its own metadata in the database for things 
>like the seektable, cutlists, and (not sure on this) video size/resolution.  
>But, the *hard* work (decoding the file/stream) has already been done by 
>ffmpeg.
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Yep and after I looked at it, it's less of a hassle to use the internal 
player than it is the xine-lib.  Once I'm done with this refactoring, 
we'll be able to play media using either a true internal player, one or 
more media player plugins or one or more external apps.