[mythtv] improving mythvideo

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Thursday 16 June 2005 03:35 am, James Stembridge wrote:
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>>On 6/16/05, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
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>>>The issue with using xinelib is that they've got a different version
>>>libavcodec than what myth uses internally, and the symbols clash somethin
>>>fierce.  Tends to make things break. =)
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>>xine can be linked against an external libavcodec, have a look at the
>>--with-external-ffmpeg configure flag.
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>Which would then require me to either ship xine, or require people to have 
>compile their own.  Don't think that'd work.
>

I *really* regret ever starting that MythXine playback plugin...  The
proper thing to do, is to fix shortcomings in the internal playback
engine rather than to try to supplant it.