[mythtv-users] Can't play live TV or videos

[Douglas Phillipson]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Installed MythTV from apt-get install mythtv-suite.  Using Redhat 9, 
> NVidia Gforce4, WinTV Go capture card.
> 
> My backend is on the same machine as my frontend.  Recording is taking 
> place.  I can see the recordings in lower left of screen when I'm in 
> "Watch Recordings".  When I choose to play a recording or try watching 
> live TV I get a blank screen.  I have "Video player" set to "mplayer -fs 
> %s".
> 
> Question:  What does MythTV use to play live TV and playback recorded 
> video?  Is it Mplayer?  What???  My xawtv works fine.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doug P
> 
I found an error on the backend side when I try to play live video:

Unknown Video Codec:  Strange error flushing buffer.

Does this mean I need some codec in Xine?  Which one???

Doug P