[mythtv-users] Need help using "Alternate Player"

Kingsley Turner krt at krt.com.au
Mon Oct 6 19:08:25 UTC 2014


On 03/10/14 22:15, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:12:58 +1000, you wrote:
>
>> Hi-yas,
>>
>> I have some video which vlc will play, but mythfrontend will not.
>> (specifically: despite MKV re-packing, myth does not use the subtitles, and
>> skips part-way through the video on start, VLC is fine)
>>
>> So I'm trying to configure MythTV to use the alternate player.
>>
>> I navigated to the video file in question, and typed "X", and selected
>> "Enable Alternate Player" checkbox.
>> In the "Alternate Player" field, I entered: /usr/bin/vlc file://%s vlc://quit
>>
>> But when I try to play the video with the alternate player, nothing happens.
>>
>> There is no log about this in the frontend log either.
>>
>> any ideas ?
> How do you have your videos set up?  An alternate player will not work
> with videos in storage groups.  You have to store them in ordinary
> directories.

Videos are just in standard directories.
Where I span to a new drive, I use a symlink on the directory.

cheers,
-kt




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