[mythtv-users] Playing MythTV files in Windows

[Steve]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:35:13PM -0500, Richard J. Finn wrote:
> 
> 	My home network is very heterogenous.  I need solutions that deliver 
> platform independent content.
> 
> 	Looking around on the site it seems like the only way to play video 
> files created by MythTV is with a patched version of mPlayer in Linux. 
> I've had limited success with mPlayer in Windows, but its BETA (leaning 
> towards ALPHA).
> 
> 	What I could really use is a way to watch these videos using 
> 	Quicktime or something on a Windows (or Mac) box - even live TV.  That 
> would open a lot of possibilities for the usefulness of this system (IMHO). 
> Ideally, files could be accessable via the web interface.
> 
> 	Has anybody achieved anything like this?


I only use the MythTV backend piece and MythWEB to handle scheduling.  The
MPEG-2 files (from a Hauppauge PVR-250 card) are served from the Mandrake
MythTV box using Samba.  I have several Win2k laptops on my network, and
view MythTV programming using Zoom Player and the WinDVD MPEG-2 codec.  No
live TV, but that's okay with me.

Steve