[mythtv-users] "Videos" won't play

[Joel Oliveira]

David - 

I just tried that, copied a file to the local myth-box's filesystem
and it still does the same thing.  Hangs.  This time I can't even
alt-tab to a terminal window.

Anyone else ever see this happen? videos just freezing?  The file I'm
trying is a standard mpeg.

Thanks in advance!

- Joel

On Thu, 13 May 2004 16:38:59 -0400, David Wadler <david at davidwadler.com> wrote:
> 
> > second, and most importantly - I went looking through the archives for
> > anything pertaining to this but couldn't seem to find anything that
> > might help the situation. The purpose of my mythtv setup is basically
> > to serve as a central station for watching videos, recordings, and
> > saved shows on the two tivos in my apartment.   Essentially there are
> > no videos on my mythtv box, they're all spread out across the network
> > amongst 3 computers and (smb)mounted in the myth box via samba.
> > mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv %s
> >
> > mplayer -fs -zoom -vo xv
> > /home/mythtv/video/tv/seinfeld/Season7/seinfeld_the_engagement.mpg
> >
> > Now, via command line that works fine, but through myth, like i said,
> > it just sits there. no action.
> 
> Joel, I've had this same problem launching particular files with MythVideo
> as well.  However, it doesn't seem restricted to samba shares.  Indeed, I
> copied a bunch of files over to my Myth machine and the problem persisted.
> I don't know why, but certain files just don't seem to launch mplayer (or
> xine -- as I've tried making each the default player).  And in my case, as
> in yours, I am able to view these files by launching the player from the
> command line.  My suggestion is to try moving your files over to your Myth
> machine and see if the problem persists.  If it does, then you can rule out
> samba.  Unfortunately, you (and I) will still be in the dark as to what's
> going on.
> 
> -David
> 
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