[mythtv-users] Mplayer help + "play with" menu ?

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
> Can mplayer switch between audio devices during playback like VLC can? For
> example I use mplayer with "-ao alsa:device=plug=dmix6 -channels 6" as part
> of the cmd and it works fine of course but I'd like to switch to -channels 2
> and device=default if I am going to switch to headphones, as I find myself
> doing quite often due to family going to sleep or what have you. In VLC I
> have my remote button set to --key-audiodevice-cycle and so I can go from
> 5.1 to stereo, but in mplayer I can't figure out how to do this without
> closing the video, changing the command and running the video again
> (obviously a pain in the butt then having to go back to the point in time I
> was watching etc.).
>
> Also, is there anything in the works like a "Play with" menu for Mythvideo?
> ie., Hitting Menu on the item would bring up a few options that have been
> set in preferences or something, and one could open the file with the
> internal player/vlc/xine/etc. Just curious.
>

Trunk/soon-to-be-.22 allows setting of an alternate player.  You can
then bring up the play context menu and play with your default or
alternate player.  Note that this does not apply to storage groups.
Only the internal player can be used with MythVideo Storage Groups.

Robert