[Videos] a solution to codec mess ? (1 Viewer)

[Al_Capone]

.. if we some day could switch to Linux, video playback playback would be as easy as in MythTV.
and/or ..what about using VLC's code for video playback ?

 

[1stdead]

If you have troubles why not use SAF?
It's allmost one-click and working perfectly for many users..
If you want advanced features you can reconfigure it yourself as well..

 

[Al_Capone]

- this is not for me, but for a friend whom I recently recommended to check out MP.
He's first reply was "windows ? - I'm not going back to codec he**" - yet mine works fine I could not really say anything else, that I hope I'll once be compiled for Linux.
BTW: He's using Mythbuntu - and is mostly happy with it, but MP seems to be better/easier regarding TV - at least it sounded that way to me.

 

[1stdead]

Some just want a one-click solution

 

[funkstar]

.. if we some day could switch to Linux, video playback playback would be as easy as in MythTV.
and/or ..what about using VLC's code for video playback ?

Yeah because rewriting all the Windows dependant code to run on Linux would be a really good use of time and energy.



I think there is enough work for the developers at the moment without someone taking on the challenge of integrating native codecs (even if they are taken from another application) and then maintaining that portion of the system. It wouldn't just be a case of lifting the code from VLC and dropping it into MP, there would need to be hooks between MP and the codecs, and it's likely they wouldn't be the same as the hooks VLC uses. Perhaps it wouldn't be possible without effectively rewriting them as they may be too tightly integrated with VLC. I wouldn't know, do you?

MP already does a pretty good job of using the codecs installed on your system, granted Windows could be better at managing it's codecs, but that's a whole other argument. As 1stdead said, SAF is all you really need.

I'd rather have the cons of a Windows system over the cons of a Linux system personally. No matter what I did, I could never get a completely working system when I tried MythTV. Kernel modules, open source drivers, package installers and dependency hell are not to be sniffed at