[vdr] Re: Unpleasant "feature" in MPlayer-plugin

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 20 Nov 2002 "Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de> wrote:

> I'm running a low-budget-only system and wanted to setup the MPlayer-plugin
> to playback the recordings.
> I successfully modified mplayer.sh to use -vc ffmpeg12, -vo xv and -ao null
> (currently no soundcard).
> Replaying by command-line worked fine with the modified script, but when I
> select a recording I get a message the channel would be blocked.

What device dou you have selected as primary?

> Obviously the MPlayer-plugin checks for a free MPEG-device which
> unfortunately doesn't exist on a low-budget-card.
> 
> So the plugin should disable that check in case there is no MPEG-decoder.

The plugin doesn't do any checks of this kind. The mplayer output
is started the same way any other replay is started. So if you
are able to replay VDR recordings with your system, the plugin
should work too (not sure if replaying recordings work with a
low-budget system).

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Stefan Huelswitt
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