[mythtv-users] playing back recordings via MythWeb

[Raphael Pooser]

David Watkins wrote:
> BTW My recordings without sound appear to be due to damaged files.  I
> have a handfull of recording that play fine in mythtv but have no
> sound when played back through vlc.  'Media Player Classic' (thanks
> for the recommendation Raphael) plays them with sound, but stutters
> from time to time and I've noticed that mplayer and vlc both log
> errors as the file is played.  Mythtv plays them fine though!

Interesting.  I watched an episode of Battle Star Galactica in windows 
using VLC last night.  If you use the medium seek command - I think the 
one that seeks about 30 seconds or a minute - then the seeking in mpeg4 
is not so bad.  It's bearable as it only takes a few seconds to skip 
forward so it's still worth it to skip the commecials.
If VLC would seek perfectly like media player classic it would be the 
perfect player in windows.  If media player classic would just open 
640x480 mpeg4 files then it would also be the perfect player (it plays 
480x480 files great but not 640x480).  Incidentally both programs have 
great methods of scaling a "16:9" SD program with black bars up to a 
16:9 TV so that it looks like true 16:9.  Works great.
Get your remote set up and then it's almost like you were watching 
recordings from a mythfrontend.  What is nuts is the fact that people 
have made it possible to view nuv files in windows so easily.  Can't 
stream media center's DVR-ms over to Linux that easily.
Raphael