[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/2010 14:44, Yaron wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> He's talking about TV /recordings/ not random videos.  The Internal
>>> player works better for them than any external player.
>>
>> And I'm talking about personal preference.
>
> Recordings use a number of features that will only exist in a dedicated
> application. It has to support management of livetv sessions. It has to
> support files of changing length. It has to support playback of content
> streamed over myth protocol. It should support pulling of metadata from the
> database. It should support editing of the cutpoints for commercial
> clipping. It should support reading of skiplists for commercial skipping.
>
> Supporting an external player would be anything but a trivial exercise. By
> the time you get done adding all this stuff into your player of choice, and
> making the proper changes to mythfrontend to allow the two to interface
> properly, it would have been far easier to simply fix playback of whatever
> files are giving you troubles in the internal player.
>
> Just a heads up, the shift in MythVideo to using storage groups and allowing
> remote access rather than relying on NFS, will likely result in the removal
> of external player support.

That would be a shame, but that's another thread.