[mythtv-users] playback of h.264 videos

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> On 9/11/07, Matt <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This might make me sound like an idiot, but is mplayer even required?
>> I want to utilize the internal player for mythvideo.
>
> Matt, I think this might be fixed now, at least it is for me.  Check
> out http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3974.  It might be as simple as
> updating to the latest SVN release to solve this for you.

     I would like to use the internal player but find it lacking (0.20.2).
It doesn't handle VOB files properly. You can seek properly in them because
the player doesn't seem to know how long the video is. It also decodes
h264 incorrectly and makes mistakes about aspect ratio.

     Beyond that, there are UI features in both the internal player and
my external player (xine) that I like (one over the other).

     "make xine ui more like internal player" is one of those items on
my mythical "if I had the time" todo list.