[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

[jedi]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:18:44PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/23/2010 04:55 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
> >>Just a heads up, the shift in MythVideo to using storage groups and allowing
> >>remote access rather than relying on NFS, will likely result in the removal
> >>of external player support.
> >But then the internal player really would need to support all random
> >video formats.  Are you sure that's a good idea?
> >
> >At the moment I'm using the internal player for everything except for
> >BluRay rips, where the internal player just isn't quite up to it yet.
> 
> If we leave external players enabled, then no one ever reports
> bugs--because they only use external players.

   No one reports bugs because they get the "where's your patch" attitude.

> 
> Besides (as Raymond mentioned), xine, mplayer, vlc, ... don't speak
> mythproto.