[mythtv-users] Can't watch Video's on front end???

[Johan Kihlström]

A JM wrote:

>"Can you play videos from the command line outside Myth with the same
>flags that you use or are you refering to recorded shows you would like
>to watch after they have been recorded through the internal viewer? Any
>error messages? Crashes? Which player do you use, Xine or mplayer?"
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>The video's all exist on the backend and are viewable/playable from there.
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>I do get an error message now that you mention it and I took a look, duh!
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>It appears that it can't find the file because it is looking on it's
>own drive instead of looking to the backend (/video/videos/?
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>It say's "file not found: ' /video/videos/short_game.vob'"
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>How can I fix that? 
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>Also, are you able to run MythGame on our FE? Xmame?
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>Thanks,
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>On 8/6/05, Johan Kihlström <johan.kihlstrom at bredband.net> wrote:
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>>A JM wrote:
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>>>I'm unable to watch videos on my front end (Xbox) but I can see the
>>>listings? Can anyone help me out with this?
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>>>I'm running 0.18 on the FE and BE.
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>>Can you play videos from the command line outside Myth with the same
>>flags that you use or are you refering to recorded shows you would like
>>to watch after they have been recorded through the internal viewer? Any
>>error messages? Crashes? Which player do you use, Xine or mplayer?
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>>Are the video library mounted on the Xbox? What are you running;
>>Xebian1.1.x or gentoox?
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>>I'm running an Xbox as a frontend and had no luck with mplayer at all,
>>Xine on the other hand worked like a charm for both DVD's and video. I
>>couldn't watch video with mplayer at all, I could select one, and the
>>screen would freeze and then return to the listing. Turned out that
>>mplayer segfaulted for some reason, still unknown, Xine didn't though so
>>now I use that.
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>>I'm running Xebian-1.1.4 with 0.18.1
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>>I hope that this will give you some guidance in your search!
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Depends on how well you know linux or UNIX, you have to export your 
directories (video, music, gallery) in /etc/exports (or similar, I'm 
running Debian on my backend) and mount them on the xbox by adding them 
to your fstab, so that they will be mounted on bootup.

excerpt from my exports file:
/mnt/video      192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 (the IPaddr/mask tells NFS 
which clients to allow to mount directories)

to mount on xbox, add your backend host with ip & alias to /etc/hosts 
and then add

yourbackendnamealias:/full path/to/exported/directory   
/created/directory/on/xbox   nfs   defaults, bg 0 0

my fstab-line would be somthing like:

dvb:/mnt/video   /mnt/video   nfs   defaults,bg 0 0

I have a working dualboot on my xbox, so I play xbox games when I feel 
the need, haven't bothered with mythgame or xmame

Hope that helps!