[mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU
>
>
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:05:03 +1300, you wrote:
>>
>>>I think it's gonna get harder to use external players for video in
>>>> mythtv. But at the same time myth's Internal player is getting better
>>>> &  better.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>That's good news, I'm starting to get sick of mplayer getting the A/V
>>>sync wrong with AVI movies.  VLC does it without adjustment or problems.
>>
>> So why are you using mplayer for AVIs?  The internal player has been
>> able to handle them fine for some time.
>>
>
> There used to be a command to use the internal player to play other files, ( "mythtv {filename}" ) however I recall it was changed
> but searching I cannot find it.  Can anyone give me a starter?
>
> Also I don't think the internal player will play an external UDP stream as the hdhomerun's serve up, for robust live TV.

No but there is a perfectly good live tv functionality built into mythtv!