[mythtv-users] Disabling the internal player

[jedi]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:43:17AM -0500, Frank Merrill wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:47:06AM +1100, Chris Adams 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.
> >>
> >> Any word on support of ISOs in a storage group? Last I read online
> >> this was not working yet and was delaying migration away from the old
> >> directory-based storage system.
> >
> > There's also:
> >
> >  1) vob files
> >  2) mkv's with captions or subtitles
> >  3) avi's with external caption file (srt)
> >  4) m2ts files with TrueHD audio
> >
> 
> I only use Storage groups now and have no issues at all with any of 1,
> 2 or 3 being in a  Storage group and playing via the Internal player

...ok. So some of this stuff is fixed but myth just can't cope with
regular files on regular filesystems?

> at all on any frontend with no file system mounts (I used to use NFS
> for MythVideo, but not anymore).
> I primarily use VOB files as that is how they get ripped from my DVDs.
> I used to use a few ISO files, but dropped them (actually transcoded
> them to another format) in favor of being able to use Storage Groups
> To be fair, I do not use subtitles or captions much, as my eyes and
> ears work fine, and I have no real need for them, but I do understand
> the need for them for some people for physical or language barrier
> issues.
> I don't use m2ts files, so I have no idea about that.
> 
> Your general negative comments about MythTV in this thread makes me
> wonder why you even use it if it's really that bad for you.
> I'm not sure how much you paid for your copy of MythTV, but mine was
> really, really cheap.
> 
> Frank
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