[mythtv-users] easy way to switch between playback profiles?

[R. G. Newbury]

On 01/29/2010 02:34 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/29/2010 02:04 AM, Mike wrote:
>> I have a mythdora 5 box that has been running for some time now.  I
>> have XvMC working with my nvidia 5200 card for OTA HDTV playback on a
>> P4 processor and it works well.
>>
>> I use the mythvideo for xvid playback using "ffmpeg&  Xvideo" software
>> decoding and that also works well.
>>
>> Trouble I have is finding a playback profile that works good for both
>> of them.  Right now if I want to do xvid I navigate thru the setup
>> menus and change the profile to ffmpeg&  Xvideo ... if I want to
>> playback OTA HDTV w/o stuttering I navigate thru the menus and set the
>> profile to use XvMC as I need the hardware decode with the P4 (this
>> works good for every channel including channel 10 but audio only for
>> xvid's with this profile) ...
>>
>> If I make a "combo" profile where XvMC is selected for anything higher
>> than 720x576 and "ffmpeg&  Xvideo" is used for anything less than
>> 720x576 then channel 10 will go to a black screen during playback of
>> recordings, no audio, with the hard drive light on solid.  The box
>> will temporarily lock up if I hit any key besides escape for things I
>> try to playback that were recorded on channel 10.  All other channels
>> work fine in this combo mode and mythvideo xvid's are also fine.
>>
>> I use a wireless keyboard to control mythtv and I have a learning
>> remote that has learned keys from that wireless keyboard so ideally it
>> would be cool to push a button to switch between the profiles instead
>> of navigating thru many levels of menu heirarchy to do what is
>> required in my situation ...
>>
>> any suggestions appreciated
>>
>
> Doesn't help you, yet, but there is talk of adding another criterion for
> playback profile usage to allow specifying CODEC.

If I read you correctly, you are trying to play xvid files using 
MythVideo, but running into problems with settings for your MythTV profiles.

But these are different things. Mythvideo player settings are in Setup 
-> Videos Settings ->Player Settings...and usually involve the -vo 
switches for mplayer ( -vo xv or -vo xvmc etc).

Or have you added a new file type 'xvid' and set the default player to 
'internal' in file settings? (in which case, try using mplayer with -vo 
xvmc etc.)

Or are you importing these xvids into your mythtv structure as if they 
are recorded tv shows?

It seems that channel 10 is an HD stream although why it will not play 
even badly with xv is odd. Also odd that xvmc will not work while 
playing the xvid files.

I'm missing something here.

Geoff


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