[mythtv-users] Playing back transcoded files (transcoded to Mpeg-4)

[ffrr]

ffrr wrote:

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>As it happens, I already have an older version of myth (0.18) on the 
>desktop machine.  I didn't know you could  just use it as a player.
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>Unfortunately it doesn't work when launched by file association under 
>KDE.  Gxine, Kaffiene etc all work, but Myth just comes up to it's 
>normal menu when a recording is played this way from a file manager 
>(such as Konqueror).  It mustn't play by the same rules.
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I have to take that comment back.  It DOES work.  What happened was, KDE 
associated the filetype with the 'mythtv' application - which it knew as 
/usr/bin/mythtvfrontend.  I manually edited it to use /usr/bin/mythtv 
and now it works.

Thanks again for the tip.