[mythtv-users] Internal Video player

[Albert Santoni]

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Albert Santoni wrote:
>
>> Isaac Richards wrote:
>>
>>> It's great that you _are_ integrating things more than some other 
>>> people are attempting (ie, the streaming thread on -dev), so I 
>>> consider that a great step forward for mythvideo/dvd.  All I'm 
>>> saying is that everything could be done with the native video player 
>>> in mythtv with a little more effort, is all.
>>>
>>> Isaac
>>>  
>>>
>> I use .MOV, .AVI, .ASF, and .RAM playback in MythVideo (thanks to 
>> MPlayer.)
>>
>> Could you REALLY implement .MOV and .RAM playback in the internal 
>> player? I'm all for it, but it might be a bit of work.
>
>
> Those format are no more work than any other with xine-lib.
>
> Supported file types are: DVD, VCD, audio CD, mpeg ps(.mpg, .mpeg), 
> mpeg ts (.ts), ogg (.ogg, .ogm), avi, asf (.asf, .wmv, .wma), 
> quicktime (.mov, .mp4),  mpeg-video (.mpv, .m2v), mpeg-audio (.mp2, 
> .mp3), Sega Saturn FILM (.cpk), Id Software RoQ (.roq), wav 
> (.wav),Autodesk FLIC (.fli), real (.rm, .ra, .ram), raw dv (.dv), 
> network graphics format (.png, .mng), Creative Voice (.voc), Sun/NeXT 
> SND/AU (.snd, .au), Wing Commander III (.mve), Westwood Studios files 
> (.vqa, .aud), Electronic Arts WVE (.wve),  AIFF (.aif, .aiff), 
> YUV4MPEG2 (.y4m), SMJPEG (.mjpg), raw AC3 (.ac3), Dialogic VOX (.vox), 
> TechnoTrend PVA (.pva), Playstation STR (.str), Nullsoft Video (.nsv), 
> 4X Technologies (.4xm)
>
> Matroska support is coming along as well.
>
>
> Codecs supported: mpeg 1/2, mpeg 4 (aka OpenDivX), ms mpeg 4, divx 
> 3/4/5, windows media video 7, motion jpeg, Cinepak, DV, ms video 1 
> (msvc), ms rle, Sorenson SVQ1/SVQ3, creative yuv (cyuv), roq video, QT 
> RLE, SMC, RPZA, theora
>
>
>
>> What about giving a configure option (--enable-xinelib?) that would 
>> allow playback through the internal player (or Donavan Stanley's 
>> player) of these special formats....
>> Good idea, bad idea?
>
>
> I'm going to make it simpler than that.  The library will be able to 
> be loaded dynamicly and used on the fly if it's not there then things 
> will work as the always have.  That way no #ifdefs are needed just a 
> simple "if(pMediaPlayerPlugin != NULL)".
>
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I thought Isaac was talking about implementing new formats into the 
_native_ internal player (ie. the one that plays MPEG2, MPEG4, and RTJPEG)
That native player, I cannot see playing .RAM and .MOV files "with a 
little more effort".... I think your idea of falling back to xine-lib if 
something other than one of these formats is detected is probably a good 
solution for now. I'd hope it would be transparent to the user though 
(ie. same OSD for the native internal player playing a MPEG4 file as the 
xine-lib fallback player playing a .WMV file) Get the idea?
Awesome.

Albert