[mythtv-users] recordings/mythvideo

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Peter <siegelpeter at gmx.at> wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian schrieb:
> > On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:55 AM, Peter wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I was wondering why mythtv was handling the recordings and the
> >> mythvideo
> >> playback differently. Why aren't mythvideos streamed to the  
> frontend
> >> the
> >> same way like recordings?
> >>
> >
> > No one has gotten to implementing that, yet. Also, not all people  
> are
> > happy with the built-in player for videos so allowing external  
> players
> > is how it's going to have to be until all the functionality is there
> > and bugs are all worked out. If videos are tied to streaming from  
> the
> > backend, you would be tied to using the internal player.
> >
> isn't mplayer able to play videos, piped using stdin?
>
> What does mplayer have to do with the Internal player in this case?

He's saying that streaming from the backend wouldn't necessarily tie  
the player to the internal player since mplayer (and probably others)  
could read video from whatever the backend sends. I imagine it's  
possible, but would take extra work that would be better spent getting  
the internal player up to the task of playing all the videos.
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