[andrzejtp]

Hello All,

I've been wondering if it is possible to use an external player with cmyth pvr? The internal player stutters (I have a rather unusual setup with 2 seats running inside a separate Xephyr each, mythtv's master backend with a tv card is on another machine and mythtv's storage is on a nas). Standalone VLC or even totem work fine, though. And mythtv's frontend works fine, too. With xbmc I managed to play videos with an external player, I have created .xbmc/userdata/playercorefactory.xml with the following contents:

Code:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>/usr/bin/cvlc</filename>
<args>"{1}" --fullscreen</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
   <rule filetypes="avi" player="VLC" />
   <rule filetypes="mpg" player="VLC" />
   <rule filetypes="mp4" player="VLC" />
   <rule filetypes="h264" player="VLC" />
   <rule livestream="true" player="VLC" />
   </rules>
</playercorefactory>

but I don't know how to play live tv with an external player: cvlc is started with a command line it does not understand, something like

Code:

pvr://channels/tv/Wszystkie kanały TV/8.pvr

"Wszystkie kanały TV" means "All TV channels".

Couldn't find related threads either. Any help?

[evuraan]

hi! did you get anywhere with this?

I too, was tinkering with playercorefactory.xml, and have the same issue. I doubt cmyth can be used with an External player.


21:51:11 T:2587835200 NOTICE: ExecuteAppLinux: "/usr/bin/mplayer" "pvr://recordings/Default/Jeopardy!/Jeopardy!, TV (4_1 KOMO), 20141221_033000.pvr" -f
21:51:12 T:2587835200 NOTICE: ExecuteAppLinux: Failure: 256