[mythtv-users] vlc for ISO-files

[Karl Dietz]

On 24.09.2014 19:49, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:26:54 +0200, you wrote:
>> playing DVDs with the internal player works fine. But playing DVD ISO files
>> looks garbled. So I would like to use vlc as player for ISO files.
>> According to http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC I should use
>>
>>        vlc file://%s vlc://quit
>>
>> But "%s" is replaced by an URL beginning with "myth://". This kind of URL
>> is not working for vlc. A workaround could be to use a script, that parses
>> the URL and passes the relevant information to vlc. But for vlc being able
>> to find the file I think I would need to mount a file share... it is
>> getting more and more complex.
>>
>> How can vlc or the internal player work for ISO files?
>
> What version of MythTV are you running?  There have been a number of
> improvements with the rendering of DVDs recently, so I now no longer
> have to use mplayer for DVDs any more.  I have mplayer set up to play
> files mythfrontend will not handle properly, as you are trying to do
> with vlc, but I am not using storage groups for my video files, so it
> works fine.  If you are using storage groups, you will need to undo
> that and go back to using the old direct access to directories for an
> external program to be able to play a video file.  I am not sure if it
> is possible to mix storage groups and directories - if so, you could
> just move only the problematic files to direct directory access.

The correct way is to "just" wrap VLC in a script that takes care of
making VLC storage group aware... e.g. by serving the content via http
and converting the myth:// urls, downloading and caching the file, lots
of options for you to choose from.

Or fix the bugs, as support for external players is on its way out.
(because its generally not needed anymore) So *now* is a good time to
bring forward stuff that doesn't work with latest fixes/0.27.

Regards,
Karl