[mythtv] Ticket #1476: MythVideo does not support MOV
Ramses Smeyers
ramses at smeyers.be
Wed Mar 8 21:18:46 UTC 2006
Hi,
> First, neither plugin is a *backend* function, they are both frontend
> plugins as all plugins are. They do not share code and were likely
> developed by two different people. What one does is unrelated to the
> other. If someone feels that a particular extension could/should be
> added to the default installation, I'm sure it would be considered as a
> patch
Point taken, although I do think it would a better way of design, this is
not code sharing, just sharing a table between 2 programs which are doing
the same ;), but anyway, leave it like that.
> , but then, I'm not sure what level of .MOV playback support there
> is in mplayer which is the default player so it is likely that many
> extensions were left out on purpose so that users could make those
> determinations themselves while very common extensions like .avi are
> included.
Mplayer has default support for MOV/QT/MP4 files, so its worth inserting
it into the dbcheck, as a lot of Camera's generate these .mov files, at
least in europe, I can't speak for US guys.
ys,
Ramses Smeyers
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