[mythtv-users] Frontends

Josh jaw1959 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 01:09:52 UTC 2008





On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:56 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:

> jedi wrote:
>>    I don't see it as that big of a deal. MythTV running in a window
>> on the desktop does well enough. I am not sure a separate app would
>> do any better while potentially doing remarkably worse.
>
> For the most part it works OK.  If I were going to put together a
> wishlist, though, I think it'd look something like this:
>
> - On-the-fly window resizing.
>
> - Honoring the window manager's window placement.  Right now the  
> window
> rudely pops back to the upper left corner whenever it feels like it.
>
> - Mouse support.  Right now it's maybe 25% there.  For example, you  
> can
> click "Watch recordings" in the main menu, but once you're there,
> nothing on the recordings screen responds to mouse input.  Same with
> "Watch videos" -- those yellow folders look so nice and clickable, but
> they aren't.
>
> - Ability to toggle the window aspect ratio on the fly.
>
> - Being able to crop would be nice, too -- for example, if the  
> recording
> is a 16:9 broadcast that was letterboxed to 4:3, show it in a 16:9
> window, with the black bars cropped out.  The old Windows ATI TV  
> player
> would let you do this just by drawing a rectangle on the video window
> with the mouse.
>
>
> And yes, I know if I ever want to actually see any of this stuff I'll
> probably have to submit a patch.  A guy can dream, though. ;)
>
>>    Having the internal player being a separate app could be cool
>> though.
>
> That would be handy.  I often end up using mythfrontend to play non- 
> Myth
> content just because it works better than mplayer or xine for many  
> file
> types.  The audio sync is more consistent and seek works better.

You should try VLC.
>
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