[mythtv-users] MythVideo Internal player

[Harald Deischinger]

Hi!

I have just started to use the internal movie player via my PVR-350 TV-Out.
MPEG Playback is working very fine, but I noticed two annoying things.

- The length of the movie is miscalulated.  This causes the player to 
stop before the end of the file. I have tried to play back some .nuv 
files (recorded with the PVR-350) and renamed to .mpg. For those files I 
noticed that the length displayed looks almost correct, but jitters by a 
few seconds as the movie is played. And the player stopped at about 50% 
of the file, just as if it had reached the end.

- Skipping though the movie is very slow when file is on "slow media". I 
have the impression that the skipping does not simply skip within the 
file, but reads all the file and skips only the rendering. I have played 
back the file from a network drive (via 801.11g), even skipping over a 
few seconds took quite some time.

But otherwise this is a really great feature. Getting the nice quality 
of the PVR, and the great Myth OSD.

I think this internal movie player could be a simple alternative to 
authoring DVDs. Just writing the .nuv files to a DVD should be much 
easier - for archiving recordings this is enough for me.

regards
Harald

PS: Does anybody know when the next version of Myth is about to be 
released. 0.16 has a nasty bug, that editing recordings is not possible 
(when using the PVR-350 for output).