[mythtv-users] Playing Video Files

Jeffrey Montgomery jrmontg at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 02:29:48 UTC 2006


That is what I thought too but no that didn't work.

On 2/24/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Montgomery wrote:
> > I have added a .avi and a .ogm file to the /var/lib/mythvideo
> > directory.  I started mythfrontend and setup up the .ogm and .avi
> > extension under file types in video setup.  I am not real sure what to
> > put for the command because I also used the gui interface.  I entered
> > mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv and then tried to play the file in
> > mythtv and got this error:
> >
> > vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
> > display)
> > Xv: could not grab port 59
> > Could not find free Xvideo port - maybe another process is already
> > using it.
> > Close all video applications, and try again. If that does not help,
> > see 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
> > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
> >
> > How do I resolve this?  I want to be able to play .avi, .mpeg, ogm
> > files.  Thanks for the help
> >
> Get a working mplayer command-line outside of mythtv and then paste that
> into the mythvideo setup and it should work fine.
>
> Kevin
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Jeffrey R. Montgomery
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