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

[Joel Oliveira]

Alright ... the solution was right under my nose and boy do I feel
stupid.   The mythtv home directory was chmod'd at 700 and after
changing it to 755 things started working - the videos started
playing,  no problems after that.

So check all permissions on the videos' dir and the dir's above it.

- j

On Thu, 13 May 2004 20:05:33 -0400, Joel Oliveira
<joel.oliveira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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