[mythtv-users] Playing back transcoded files (transcoded to Mpeg-4)

[ffrr]

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>>As it happens, I already have an older version of myth (0.18) on the 
>>desktop machine.  I didn't know you could  just use it as a player.
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>>Unfortunately it doesn't work when launched by file association under 
>>KDE.  Gxine, Kaffiene etc all work, but Myth just comes up to it's 
>>normal menu when a recording is played this way from a file manager 
>>(such as Konqueror).  It mustn't play by the same rules.
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>I have to take that comment back.  It DOES work.  What happened was, KDE 
>associated the filetype with the 'mythtv' application - which it knew as 
>/usr/bin/mythtvfrontend.  I manually edited it to use /usr/bin/mythtv 
>and now it works.
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>Thanks again for the tip.
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Argh!  I thought we had a winner, but the jump and skip functions are 
very slow and haphazard - i.e. useless, when playing this way. 

Also (although this is minor) it gets a couple of error messages as it 
starts - about not being able to contact the backend server ( which of 
course it can't, because it's not running)