I understand that there used to be an option to use an external player such as mpv instead of the built-in frontend.
Since the MythTV frontend is no longer working for me (see below if interested) I've had to write a stupid script to at least have access to my recordings. Perhaps it's useful to someone else?
It's here: https://gitlab.com/wef/dotfiles/-/blob/ ... lay-mythtv
It uses fzf to help select the recording to play - you might prefer wofi or some such.
I also have kodi installed and I can use that to play the recordings - but I hate the user interface.
Why do I need this? I upgraded to fedora-34 recently and found that the new pipewire audio system drops 1 second silences into my audio stream every 30s or so. This happens on all the audio sources including vlc, mpv, firefox as well as mythfrontend. So I decided to revert the OS to pulseaudio which now works perfectly with everything except mythfrontend.
External player
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Re: External player
Sadly I suspect you'll get better picture quality as well.
If you use an alsa device then the frontend will stop the pulseaudio server
If you use an alsa device then the frontend will stop the pulseaudio server
Re: External player
Just for the record - a number of updates to the OS later and pipewire is working fine with MythTV so my need for the stupid play-mythtv script has mainly gone away. Not sure about mpv giving better quality though ... I can't see it, but maybe my old Radeon card is too poor.
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Re: External player
The better PQ is due to VDPAU HiQuality (upscaler).. that got removed from MythTV about 2 years back.
The AMD card may not have any VDPAU support for that..
The AMD card may not have any VDPAU support for that..