[mythtv-users] unable to play hd recordings

Paulin paulin at spextreme.com
Thu Jan 8 22:42:13 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Eppo Eppleston <eppo120 at gmail.com> wrote:

> how did you go about breaking it? i did notice when i tried to open up
> totem to play it manually it had to find a gstreamer plugin to play it. so
> what codecs does mythtv use to play its video files? what does mythtv use as
> its internal player? the whole codecs thing seems very complicated.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Paulin <paulin at spextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Eppo Eppleston <eppo120 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have installed the svn version of mythtv on my backend and on my
>>> frontend.
>>> i have it recording fine from my new hauppauge hdpvr.
>>> but if i try to play my recorded file, it wont open.
>>> i get these errors on console:
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 AFD: Opened codec 0x1c8ee90, id(H264) type(Video)
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x1c67600,
>>> id(AAC) type(Audio) aborting. reason -1
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 NVP(2): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 Couldn't open decoder for:
>>> /home/ataraid/Mythtv/2733_20090107103000.mpg
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:21.537 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) --
>>> end error
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.454 [h264 @ 0x7f8d060354e0]mmco: unref short failure
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.577 AFD: Opened codec 0x56a9d90, id(H264) type(Video)
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.577 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.577 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x56aa4d0,
>>> id(AAC) type(Audio) aborting. reason -1
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.577 NVP(3): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
>>> 2009-01-07 17:37:28.577 Couldn't open decoder for:
>>> /home/ataraid/Mythtv/2733_20090107103000.mpg
>>>
>>> am i missing something that i need to play this file type? i'm using
>>> ubuntu 8.04, do i need something from the repositories?
>>> thanks
>>> Joe
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>> Look into your audio setting (Setup/General).  I was having similar issues
>> so I disabled audio (broke it so no sound came out) till I got playback
>> working.  Now I'm tweaking audio to get it working.  Audio seems to be my
>> issue currently.
>>
>> steve
>>
>
I basically set my MythTV setting to NULL or something that wouldn't work.
Don't remember exactly...

As for the codec not sure...I know myth using MPlayer some but not sure how
exactly.

Steve
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