[mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 13 October 2003 06:47 pm, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:04 PM
> > To: Development of mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv] MythTV: Windows frontend
> > 
> > On Monday 13 October 2003 02:54 pm, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> > > What video codec is the files encoded with? Rtjpeg or mpeg4?
> > > If it's mpeg4 have you installed ffdshow or divx?
> > 
> > 
> > RTjpeg
> > 
> > > The installer don't associate .nuv with any application 
> > since I don't know
> > > what player you want to use, but that shoudn't prevent you 
> > from opening .nuv
> > > files in almost any media player app.
> > > The installer only adds the nessesary registry entries to 
> > make the filters
> > > and shell extensions work.
> > > 
> > > About the file associations, there is a minor problem on 
> > winme that makes
> > > the propertypage disapear if you change the file association.
> > > 
> > > Wich version of windows are you using?
> > 
> > Windows 98 SE
> > 
> > 
> > Could it be a problem if I installed the base components but 
> > not the Explorer 
> > shell extension?  I uninstalled after my first install, 
> > because it seemed 
> > like the shell extension was causing Explorer to crash.  If I 
> > get the DS 
> > filter working, I'll try re-installing the Explorer shell 
> > extension to verify 
> > if that is indeed the case.
> > 
> 
> The filters will work just fine without the shell extensions.
> I woudn't be surprised if win98 did something different than winme that
> breaks the filter, I'll see if I can do some debuging on a win98 computer.
> 
> I have seen the explorer crashing on win9x/me too (works fine on winxp). I
> did find one problem that can cause explorer to crash, but there migt be
> more.
> 
> I'm developing the filter and shell extensions on a winxp computer so that’s
> why there might be problems with win9x/me, but I'll try to make it work on
> win9x/me too.


Thanks!

-JAC