[mythtv-users] Issues with playing videos from external player.

Johnny Walker johnnyjboss at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 17:04:20 UTC 2010


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:07 AM, MarcT <myrdhn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:16 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Issues with playing videos from external player.
>
> On 05/27/2010 11:11 PM, MarcT wrote:
>> I'm using xine on some of my videos and the internal player with others.
> For
>> the past few weeks I have noticed an issue with exiting the external
> player,
>> even when it gets to the end of the video and exits itself.
>>
>> The issue? Xine starts playing the same video again.
>>
>> If I hit the remote button mapped to exit xine a few mins after starting a
>> recording, it exits no problem.
>>
>> If I watch something like an hour long and hit exit on the closing
> credits,
>> xine closes, and then relaunches playing the same recording.
>>
>> If I let xine play through to the end of the video and close itself, again
>> it relaunches and plays the same media again.
>>
>> I have even tried sshing into the frontend and killing xine, and it still
>> restarts.
>>
>> I usually have to spam the exit button several times or spam killall xine
>> via ssh to get it to finally stay closed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone seen this behavior before?  Any ideas on where to start looking
>> for the cause?
>>
>> I have had no luck tracking this down myself.
>>
>
> Do you have the video to always play after this one set?
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
>
> There is a setting in metadata for next file, but that is set to none on all
> my videos. Other than that I can find no other setting that might trigger
> this.
>
> MarcT
>

I'm late to this chain but since I don't see a solution or solved on
it yet I though I'd ask:

Does this happen only when you launch from the remote control or also
if you use a physical keyboard and no lirc?

-Johnny


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