Mythvideoplayer

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mythvideoplayer

This is a MythVideo player that wraps mplayer/xine/vlc and enables -

  • Playlists
    • Create a MythVideo file containing all videos to play.
  • Random play
    • Create a MythVideo file containing search options. Possible searches
    • randomcat:category. Random video from category
    • randomfile:directory. Random video. Goes down tree from dir
    • randomvid:title search string. Random video matching search
    • randomrec:title search string. Random recording matching search
    • random:title search string. Search videos & recordings
    • leastplayed:title search string. Random least played video matching search
    • mostplayed:title search string. Random most played video matching search
    • oldestplayed:title search string. Random oldest played matching search
    • youngestplayed:title search string. Random youngest played matching search
    • highestrating:title search string. Random highest rated matching search
  • DVD playing and managing in MythVideo
    • Create a MythVideo file containing meta data, possibly containing title, audio channel to play
    • When selected will prompt for the DVD to be inserted and play
  • Streaming Media playing (You can use XBMC strm files)
    • Create a MythVideo file containing MRL and player.
  • VCD playing and managing in MythVideo
    • Create a MythVideo file containing meta data, possibly containing title, audio channel to play
    • When selected will prompt for the VCD to be inserted and play
  • Myth Recordings playing
    • Create a MythVideo file containing MythRecording
  • Filesystem CD/DVD playing and managing in MythVideo
    • Create a MythVideo file containing meta data, possibly containing file to play
    • When selected will prompt for the CD/DVD to be inserted and play
  • Snapshot to update MythVideo coverfile
    • When a snapshot is taken the MythVideo coverfile will be changed to it.

NOTES

Probably won't work with MythTV 0.22

  • Have no GUI
  • Requires lots of manual changes

Installation and Documentation

See http://web.aanet.com.au/~auric/?q=node/18