[mythtv-users] unable to play hd recordings

Eppo Eppleston eppo120 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 06:30:32 UTC 2009


I figured out what the problem was. you need to run configure with the
--enable-libfaad
when i did that, it didnt work correctly, so i upgraded from ubuntu 8.04 to
8.10 and then recompiled, and now it works.
hope if anyone is having a similar problem this will help fix it for them.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Paulin <paulin at spextreme.com> wrote:

> 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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