[mythtv-users] Watching recordings on trip?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I occasionally travel for business and, while I can copy MythTV
> recordings to my laptop, I need the laptop to run Windoze.
>
> Windows Media Player doesn't seem to be able to play the copied
> recordings, and the Intervideo player I have installed is nowhere near
> as nice as the MythTV internal player.
>
> Even if I was willing to spend the time building the MythFE for
> windows, that's not really what I'm looking for, as the laptop won't
> have connectivity to the BE when I'm trying to watch recordings on the
> road.
>
> Can anyone suggest a better solution than trying to work with a
> MythBuntu Live CD/DVD to play the recordings I have copied to the
> laptop's hard drive?

you could try smplayer, which is mplayer with a nice gui and available
for windows or linux.