[mythtv-users] Can MythTV Play MPEG4 (DivX/XviD) Disks?

[Craig Tinson]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Mat Kyne wrote:
>
>> I like to transcode my HDTV recordings down to a more reasonable size 
>> and then burn them to DVD+R for storage. I find that I can fit the 
>> entire season of shows on 1-2 disks. Is there a way in MythTV to just 
>> pop them into the drive and watch them from there? I can do this with 
>> my Xbox with XBMC. - Now I know I can do this in FC4 with Xine, but 
>> what can I say, If it aint easy, my wife won't like it. And I need 
>> the WAF to be through the roof :) -Mat
>
>
> The MythVideo plugin plays content such as this.  It simply spawns an 
> external player (like xine) to do it.  There is some support for media 
> detection (which I've never used) so that should work as well.  That 
> being said, MythVideo is more geared towards watching content stored 
> on the hard disk already so you may have to search the archives a bit 
> for suggestions from people to get that to work with content on DVD+R 
> which i believe has been posted before.
>
> Kevin
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have a look at this:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/142951?search_string=catalog;#142951

hth

Craig