[mythtv-users] Using mythbuntu with VLC

[Alan Buxton]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net
> wrote:

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> On 24 February 2017 at 07:33, Alan Buxton <alan at arrial.com> wrote:
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>> Ok so does this mean that I can’t use VLC with mythtv to play back
>> videos?
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>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VLC makes it seem like this is supported,
>> though when I follow those instructions I get this error.
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>> Thanks
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> Yeah thats well out of date, feel free to update the wiki page.
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> you'd be better off using the Internal Player, if your having issues with
> the Internal Player raise a bug with a small sample video, there very
> little the Internal Player can playback these days.
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> Alternatively people have used a wrapper script in the paste
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> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1560009&page=2
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> Also please dont top post https://www.mythtv.org/
> wiki/Mailing_List_etiquette#Please_don.27t_cross_post
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> Cheers,
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> Anthony
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> Thanks, using a script based on that thread worked great for me.

FWIW I was trying to test with an ISO image from here:
http://www.deniscarl.com/dvdtest/ which would open fine in VLC but not
using the Internal player. Should this be supported? If so then I will make
a ticket.

Thanks
Alan
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