[mythtv-users] Unable to Watch Videos in Mythtv

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 15:02:21 EST 2005


On 11/12/05, Jason Hendrix <hendrix.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used this command line for xine:
> xine -pfhq --no-splash %s
>
> And I used the default command line for mplayer.  Both mplayer and
> xine have the same result.  When I click a video to watch it, nothing
> at all happens, and neither mplayer nor xine show up in top.
>
> I've tried it as the mythtv user and even as root.  Both ways have the
> same result.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> On 11/11/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > Jason Hendrix wrote:
> >
> > >I'm unable to watch videos in mythtv.
> > >
> > >When I click to watch a movie, nothing happens.  I thought that this
> > >may be an issue w/mplayer, so i changed the settings to use Xine
> > >instead.  However, that didn't fix the issue.
> > >
> > >No errors are generated to the terminal window that mythfrontend is
> > >running from, and neither xine nor mplayer show up in top when I click
> > >to watch a movie.
> > >
> > >Outside of mythtv, the same videos run fine in xine.
> > >
> > >
> > With the same command line?  With the same user (since the
> > ~/.xine/config or ~/.mplayer/config and ~/.mplayer/gui.conf files may be
> > different)?  What is the command line?
> >
> > Mike

Is it a wndow focus issue?  Do you have any audio?  Could it be just
that Myth is still on top?


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