[mythtv-users] VLC replacement

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 14:42:39 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 9/23/2010 4:37 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Calvin Harrigan
>> <charriglists at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a replacement for VLC.  I've been using VLC for a while
>>> now,
>>> completely configured and integrated into my system, lirc, the works.  I
>>> find that it has become a little bit too picky when it comes to playing
>>> certain files, no fast forwards, jumps back to the beginning on its own,
>>> drops audio, all sorts of unsavories.  I've had mplayer and xine setup,
>>> but
>>> the subtitling was not cutting it.  Are there any other players that
>>> could
>>> be used with decent subtitling and lirc compatible?
>>
>> Have you tried the internal MythTV player? Although I can't speak to
>> it's subtitle abilities, it works perfectly for me with a wide array
>> of different formats.
>>
>> Tom
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>
> Tried the internal player last night.  Of the files those that did play,
> they played great, subtitles as well. But many didn't play at all.  It would
> go black and after few seconds pops back out to mythvideo's interface.  But
> while fooling with it I noticed that an alternative player can be defined,
> so for the time being, I have VLC as my default player and mplayer as the
> alternative, if a video acts up, I quit and restart with the alternative
> player and bear through the sucky subtitle rendering of mplayer.

I forgot to mention, I'm running trunk SVN, so my internal player may
be better than yours. Is there anything in the logs to indicate *why*
it couldn't play?

Tom


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