[mythtv-users] MythVideo problems after upgrade to 0.21

[Tony Marsh]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tony Marsh
<myth at hillsidethickets.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I've recently upgrade my ubuntu based combined front and backend from
>  0.20 to 0.21. Initially, using the version compiled by mythbuntu from
>  their weekly builds repo, and as the problem I'm about to ask about
>  was a bit of a show stopper, now the version of 0.21 that's in the
>  gutsy-backports repo.
>
>  Everything is fine (thanks to everyone that worked on the new
>  version!) with the exception of mythvideo. basically, there's 2
>  issues:
>
>  1> I can't play any video via mythvideo. Attempts at playback result
>  in a blank screen for a second or two, before i'm dumped back to the
>  "film poster" page (ie, just before you confirm that you want
>  mythvideo to play the file". tailing mythfrontend.log while I try this
>  results with the following output:
>  "2008-03-16 22:16:55.816 AFD Error: Could not find codec parameters.
>  file was /media/myth/video/movie/An.American.Werewolf.in.London.avi".
>  2008-03-16 22:16:55.816 Couldn't open decoder for:
>  /media/myth/video/movie/An.American.Werewolf.in.London.avi"
>
>  Playback is fine via VLC or Mplayer.

Ok, I've got *no* idea what fixed this, but between me checking this,
then trying the dvd issue again below, I can now play video..

>  2>  Region 2 dvd's play, but with no audio:
>  "2008-03-16 22:28:24.916 NVP: Enabling Audio
>  2008-03-16 22:28:24.919 AFD: Warning, video codec 0xae6830
>  id(MPEG2VIDEO) type (Video) already open.
>  2008-03-16 22:28:24.919 AFD: Warning, audio codec 0x2aaab3b9b180
>  id(AC3) type (Audio) already open, leaving it alone.
>  2008-03-16 22:28:24.919 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
>  2008-03-16 22:28:24.919 AFD: codec AC3 has 0 channels
>  No accelerated IMDCT transform found
>  2008-03-16 22:28:24.919 AFD: Opened codec 0x2aaac1638030, id(AC3) type(Audio)"

Guess what - this works too now.. The above still appears in the log,
but I've got region 2 dvd playback, back.

>  Other regions will play as far as the menu, before generating the
>  following error repeatedly until I hit esc,  in mythfrontend.log:
>  "2008-03-16 22:33:54.165 NVP: prebuffering pause"

This issue appear to have something to do with the dvd menus on the
handful of region 1 dvd's i've just tried. when I hit esc after
writing my initial email, I noted that the dvd actually appeared to of
played, even though the menu was still on screen. If I play the dvd
from the bookmark I created, it works fine... is there anyway to
ignore the menu, and just play the first / largest title?

>
>  Again, Playback is fine via VLC or Mplayer.
>
>  Thanks in advance!

And sorry for almost wasting your time! help with the dvd menu problem
would be appreciated though!

>
>
>  Tony.
>