I thought I would share this hack in case anyone else was looking to do this:
I've installed the VLC client on my laptop and was happy with the way
the way recordings played via the samba share to my recordings
directory. The one thing that was missing for me was a decent
description of the hard
well if you have the myth tv filters installed, you can add additional
columns to the folder view of your samba share. the myth filters add
i know at least description channel episode, and probably some
others. You can then just browse the folder and choose one, and open
it in your media player
