[mythtv-users] Playback with xine?

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> [1] Heck, what file formats can the 0.21 player not handle? mkv's been
> mentioned in this thread but mine handles all such I have fine. I do
> have a few mp4s and wmvs--a clip of a boss fight within World of
> Warcraft, a couple of machinima films, and two 1080p versions of the
> _I am Legend_ trailer--that doesn't play and/or crashes mythfrontend
> spectacularly, but of course I'm not going to submit a ticket while
> running the VDPAU backport.

My guess is the WMVs are using the Windows Media Pro Audio Codec
(think ffmpeg identifies it as "dmapro" or something like that).
There was a Google Summer of Code project for handling it last year,
and I was really hoping it would get merged into ffmpeg itself in time
for the next Myth ffmpeg sync, but it's looking like it might not make
it in time.  :(   Bummer, too, it's one of the primary (only?) reasons
people need to install the w32codecs package for mplayer.  MP4 can be
a little tricky too, I can see where you might need to use an external
player with it.  There's all sorts of
not-technically-MP4-container-compliant ways of doing it (notably
those files made by handbrake) that sometimes seem to give Myth fits.
I honestly haven't tried any it a while, I ought to take another look.

I'm glad to hear it's gotten better for you over time.

Robert