[mythtv-users] MythVideo/xine problems

Captain Krypto captainkrypto at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 23:16:28 UTC 2006


Well...  I found a fix for the problem, but I am still unsure of what the
problem was to begin with...  I found that mythfrontend was launching xine
with the following command:

sh -c xine -pfhq --no-splash <path to video file>

and was able to reproduce the problem from the command line.  The title bar
for xine displayed that there was "no mrl found".  The only change that I
made was to include the full path to xine on the player command line in the
settings... i.e. "/usr/bin/xine -pfhq --no-splash %s" and all is well again.

Anyway, I am still baffled as to how this problem came about because I have
only one instance of xine on the system, and it is in the PATH, but I
figured I would post this to the list in case anyone else came across this
problem as well.

Dave

On 4/10/06, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I read a post on the dev list that says mythvideo shells out to the
> external player...  (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/135931).  Does any one
> have any idea how this is done?...  it seems that if I could figure out how
> mythvideo is executing xine,  I would be a step closer to solving my
> problem.
>
>
> On 4/10/06, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply Warren.  That was my first thought as well.  The
> > directory from which mythvideo reads the file is actually a mount to the
> > backend system.  To be absoultly sure, I ran a "chmod -R 777" on the entire
> > mounted directory and still had the problem.  I did forget to mention that I
> > am able to watch videos though mythvideo using the default mplayer
> > command... I was getting some audio/video sync issues with mplayer that
> > aren't present with xine.  Xine runs fine when launching from the command
> > line...  so, is there another layer between xine and mythtv?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On 4/10/06, Warren < warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Captain Krypto wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I had xine successfully working in MythVideo, but now it stopped
> > > working.  When I try to launch a movie through MythVideo I get the xine
> > > splash screen and the following output in the mythfrontend log:
> > >
> > > sh: line 1: <path to avi file>: Permission denied
> > >
> > > I am using the command "xine -pfhq --no-splash %s" in the set up
> > > section.  If I use that same command from the command line, everything works
> > > as expected.  ( i.e. xine launches with the arguments and play the
> > > video)  I've tried numerous videos and all have the same result.  I haven't
> > > made any updates to the system since it was working and I know that the
> > > working setup had survived a few reboots.  I am using a PVR-350 for TV out,
> > > but since I can see the xine splash screen, it doesn't look like that
> > > figures into the equation and since I get the same behavior when launching
> > > mythfront from the command line on my desktop.  I was hoping that someone
> > > had run into this problems before, or could give me some pointers to
> > > troubleshoot it further.  Also, how does mythvideo handle external video
> > > players?  It looks like from the error, that xine is launched through
> > > mythvideo via some sort of shell script... is that correct?  Any input it
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > >
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> > >   Sounds like the file is owned by whomever you are logged in as when
> > > you are running from the command line but not the user that mythvideo is
> > > running as and that myth user does not have read permission to the file.
> > > Try "chmod 644 <path to .avi file>" without the quotes.  That should allow
> > > any user on the system to view the file.
> > >
> > > W
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