[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

[Allan Stirling]

jedi wrote:

> 
>     Well now that you put it like that you've reminded me that the internal
> player has major problems with defects in recordings. Quite frequently I have 
> OTA recordings that have a little bit of "digital snow". These tend to crash 
> the internal player pretty much immediately. My external players are all much 
> more able to deal with those sorts of flawed recordings.
> 

I'm not sure when your experience comes from, but recently 
(0.20+) I have not had a single crash related to a bad 
recording.

And to be clear here, I do (due to a poor design decision) 
get regular glitches in the video streams.

Cheers,

Allan.