From: Ed W. <li...@wi...> - 2005-01-02 23:00:21
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Hi Siggi, I think I explained myself badly. I actually use Mythtv as my media center and everything on it is controlled by the one remote. Up until now I usually rip just the main feature from a DVD and myth plays this via mplayer. However, I have a number of DVD's with menus (like tv compilations) which really don't play well with mplayer, hence the move to switch to xine. Now mythtv's video module is built around the idea of one file = one film, so I need to rip the DVD's to an ISO image - however, unless I am simply falling foul of operator error doing "xine dvd://somefile.iso" just gives a message about "no demuxer available for file type .iso". Is this operator error, or something that I should consider programming around? My other point was the error messages not being easily cleared. This might be partly a UI setup issue though. Basically I seem to actually need to press the OK buttons rather than simply pressing escape. Possibly "enter" works, but I can't remember. Basically though for my use it would be nice if it either appeared briefly, died instantly and simply wrote a message to a log file, or printed the error on the output device. However, will simply put it down as a feature request... Anyway, xine is a lovely app, congrats to all developers. There are tons of little things I would like to tweak on it of course - for example I don't have enough buttons on my remote for all functions and I would love it if the event left/right/up/down buttons could be overridden to do different things when we are playing a feature and there are no menus visible (I could then map them to the large skip forward backwards functions). However, perhaps I should learn a little more about the xine-ui internals first. Thanks for your advice Ed W |