[mythtv-users] 0.25-fixes: Couldn't find an A/V decoder for video/mpeg

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 1 June 2012 05:26, Angela <angela.schmid at wolke7.net> wrote:
> With mythavtest I get the following error message:
> 2012-05-31 08:50:22.668457 E  Player(0): Couldn't find an A/V decoder for:
> '/store/store5/video/mov03093.mpg'
> 2012-05-31 08:50:22.668463 E  Player(0): Unable to open video file.

>
> Why can't I play video/mpeg codec movies within Mythtv ?
>
> Which library should provide the codec ? Mythtv external FFmpeg ?
>        libmythavcodec.so.52 => /usr/lib/libmythavcodec.so.52
> (0x00007fb1b7bb9000)

mythtv ships with its own version of ffmpeg.

You could try playing the file with mythffplay and see how you go.

The version in 0.25 is over one year old now ; having said that we use
our own mpeg-ts format decoder.

If you raise a ticket with a link to a sample we can have a closer look.

JY