[mythtv-users] MythGallery Display MP4s?

[Kirk Bocek]

Brent Bolin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> With my old family camera setup, all our home movies were in .AVI/Xvid format.
>> It was neat that MythGallery would show and play them allowing the family to
>> seamlessly browse both stills and movies.
>>
>> However our new HD camera ends up generating MP4/x264 files. Myth has no
>> problem playing these through the MythVideo interface using mplayer.
>> MythGallery shouldn't have a problem playing them either since it's configured
>> to use mplayer too.
>>
>> The problem is that image gallery portion of MythGallery doesn't recognize mp4
>> as a valid extension. Is there any way to add this extension to MythGallery?
>>
>> Kirk Bocek
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> Have your tried *.mpg

Right you are! I had forgotten that MP4 is simply a variation/extension of the 
MPEG standard. After renaming the files to ".mpg" they play fine in VLC on 
Windows and mplayer under linux. They display fine in the MythGallery browser.

Thank You.