[mythtv-users] Internal Video player

Jason Ferrara jason at discordia.org
Sat Jan 10 08:25:54 EST 2004


On Jan 10, 2004, at 8:55 AM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>
>> The main obstacle to using the Myth internal player is just hooking 
>> everything up.  Myth currently depends on its own metadata in the 
>> database for things like the seektable, cutlists, and (not sure on 
>> this) video size/resolution.  But, the *hard* work (decoding the 
>> file/stream) has already been done by ffmpeg.
>>
>>
>
> Yep and after I looked at it, it's less of a hassle to use the 
> internal player than it is the xine-lib.  Once I'm done with this 
> refactoring, we'll be able to play media using either a true internal 
> player, one or more media player plugins or one or more external apps.

Will the internal player handle DVD menus?



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