[mythtv-users] What happened to the standalone player?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 07:52:54 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael T. Dean"
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] What happened to the standalone player?
>
>
> On 11/16/2009 11:15 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>
>> 2009/11/16 Christopher Meredith:
>>
>>>
>>> I used to be able to use the command 'mythtv foo.mkv' to play media
>>> with the MythTV player, apart from the full frontend. I would use this
>>> to test playback profiles as well as set A/V sync values for mkvmerge.
>>> I lost this somewhere along the way. Was it removed for some reason or
>>> is there something wrong with my install (from source)?
>>>
>>
>> In 0.22 and later, it's called 'mythavtest'.
>
>> Because it's not a standalone player so much as a MythTV Audio/Video
>> testing application.
>
> Is there a syntax for this that allows this test player to play a file from
> another Linux box on the LAN, e.g.
> mythavtest file:{IPADDRESS}/parent/child/file.mpg
> which does not seem to work.

you could try the mythtv:// protocol

or nfs/cifs mount the filesystem.


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