[mythtv-users] RANT: MythTV has a *horrible* end user experience.

[Greg Mischel Smith]

I have been using mplayer as it was set as default player for watching
videos. I was glad to hear I can change it to Internal. I tested it out
this evening and it worked pefect.

My question is, can I change MythGallery is use the "Internal" player as
well for videos? I have DVD's that contain video files on them (avi, mpeg),
and I wish I could use Internal player with it.

I may just have to copy them over before I can watch them. The DVD drive
spins up too loud anyway when doing this. However when playing DVD's, it
isn't loud at all. I'm guessing there must be settings controlling this in
the code.

Greg Smith
KCMO

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:

> > In my opinion, the biggest flaw is in playing back recorded TV versus
> > playing back videos (AVIs, etc).  The problem here of course is that
> > MythTV
> > has two different movie players with two completely different sets of
> > controls.  This just isn't going to work for the average user.  Having
> to
> > tweak my remote settings manually to get both sets of controls
> > semi-similar
> > is painful.  And even then the controls/interfaces of mplayer vs. the
> > internal player are different to the point of being obnoxious.  Any
> media
> > played with MythTV needs to run under ONE player.
>
> Interesting - I've been using the same (Internal) player for videos and TV
> (and DVDs) for at least the last 12 months - have you moved on from
> version 0.18 yet?
>
> --
> Robin Gilks
>
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