[Tapeworm] Playing current watch tv files

[David Woods]

> Hi! I've been happily using Tapeworm for a couple days now. It's working 
> real well with MyHD which is a media player that can use my MDP120 HD 
> decoding card under windows. The linux mythtv box has no permanent 
> monitor or speakers connected to it, it's just meant to capture. 
> However, it would be neat to use the telnet remote control feature that 
> was added in 0.19 to start a Live TV capture and change the channel to 
> what I want to watch, then watch it with tapeworm (admittedly this is 
> more interesting for my laptop as the MyHD card also captures HD from 
> antenna for live tv purposes, it's DVR app is just inadequate).

Interesting.  I'll look into it, though I'm not likely to have time in the
next month or so.  Work is really busy right now.

> The problem I have with this is if I start a capture then it just loops 
> when it gets to the end where it was when I started watching it, rather 
> than continuing on.

As I understand it, that's a limitation of the media player.  Some media
players can cope with files of changing size, others apparently see how long
a file is on startup and quit when they think the file should be over.  At
least I think I remember reading something along those lines on the
mythtv-users list a week ago or so.  I think mplayer might be worth looking
at in that regard, if it can handle your HD files.  

Anyway, it's not something that TapeWorm has control over.  TapeWorm just
launches the player and waits for it to quit.

> Another problem I'm seeing is that after the first configuration, when I 
> try to configure Tapeworm, the app doesn't let me change the player, I 
> have to use regedit to do that.

Hmmm.  I don't know what's up with that.  I can change the media player
command with no problem.  I'm not at home right now, so I can't check the
source code to see if I screwed something up.  I'll check it when I get
home.

> Thanks for the toy though! It's very nice even without
> these things.

You're welcome.  I'm glad you like it.

David