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Hi,
I would like to use mplayer instead of DVDplayer to play movie content.
Is there a setting somewhere that tells the xbmc gui to chose another player ? I searched around but could not find one.
Right now the only option I have is to get the SVN version, modify the code to exec the external mplayer and compile, but my programming skills are not much past the "Hello world" stage so I have a tough road ahead.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Regards,
Emil
http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/5300
There's a modified patch for linux attached that is working. Here's the thread in the forums for it: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40136
I'm having some issues with xbmc staying on top of mplayer, but I was able to solve it at least partially for my configuration.
Thanks. I compiled xbmc with the patch - seems to be working, but the remote is no longer working.
I get in the log messages like "DEBUG: Update - NEW at 165036:0000000077e120be 00 play macremote" wich means xbmc reads the lirc input corecly. I'm using the same Lircmap.xml and Keymap.xml that used to work with the binary xbmc distribution.
Does your IR support work ?
Yes it does. No problems with the remote here... Is yours not working in the xbmc window or in the external player?
Just out of curiosity, does your mplayer spawn in the foreground?
Sorry about the remote - it was a problem with the lircmap being in the wrong directory!
Mplayer spawns in the foreground and in full screen - i run xbmc on top of X, without a window manager.
What bothers me is that the keyboard is not working while mplayer is running. All my input commands are ignored by both xbmc and mplayer. Mplayer is not yet configured with lirc so I cannot say if it ignores also the IR commands. Do you have this issue?
Compiled mplayer with lirc support and it's working :D. I do not care anymore if it respondes or not to keyboard input - if it works with the remote it's ok for me.