[mythtv] MythVideo startup instructions

[Tarek Loubani]

Hey guys!

I had quite some time trying to get Mythvideo going.. Ultimately, I am convinced that mythvideo out of the box (downloaded from CVS) does not work.. This is what was done to make it "usable" for me:

1) Profiles:

The settings in mythexplorer-settings.txt make intuitive sense.. However, they just didn't work. Upon closer examination, it was found that there was some sort of "break" in the definition of the default profiles.

2) Helper applications:

Only one helper application is defined by default: avi_helper. Again, this makes intuitive sense, and I initially assumed this meant that avi_helper was how any videos were launched. Instead, there must be a helper defined for each and every file format stated in the profile in the format: str <format>_helper=<program>

3) Mplayer full-screening:

This was very easy to fix. Mplayer was simply not scaling in full-screen mode. this was fixed by adding -vm to the command line.

tarek : )

Here is the mythexplorer-settings.txt file that works for me:

str default_helper=mplayer %s
str StartDir=/home/ftp/movies
str LoadProfile=profile_movies

str wav_helper=mplayer %s
str avi_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -quiet %s
str mpeg_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -quiet %s
str mpg_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -quiet %s
str divx_helper=mplayer -fs -vm -zoom -quiet %s
str profile_movies=avi mpg mpeg divx