[mythtv-users] PVR-350 cannot play .avi ?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sun Mar 26 21:48:35 UTC 2006


Damian OHara wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> All set up abut no ability to play divx avi files. Get the "I set that
> directory path, and when I go to "Watch Videos", it sees my .AVI file.
> When I select it, it says "Loading <filename>", but never does anything.
> I have mythvideo installed" thing.
> Have added the essential codecs from the mplayer website (into
> /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and also a copy into /usr/lib/codecs) but to no
> avail.
> I'm using latest FC4 kernel, 0.19 mythtv and the X framebuffer
> (ivtvdev_drv.o) as per my previous post.
> Anyone got past this ?
>   
Get an mplayer command-line working outside of Myth first, and then 
cut/paste it into the Myth player setup and it will work fine.  Since 
Myth is doing nothing more than launching the player of your choice, you 
need to get that working.

Kevin


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