[mythtv-users] Need help using "Alternate Player"

Kingsley Turner krt at krt.com.au
Mon Oct 6 01:06:25 UTC 2014


On 04/10/14 06:19, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 03/10/14 21:15, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>
>> If you run mythfrontend with '-v system' it should tell you what command 
>> is being used to play the file. If the url passed as the file name starts 
>> with 'myth://' then you are using storage groups.
>>
>> It would be interesting to see if you can play the file with mythffmpeg.
>>
>> Paul H.
>
> Make that mythffplay :)
>

It plays the same as per mythfrontend.  Below is the stdout.

Interestingly it seems to notice the subtitles in the MKV but refuses to use 
them.
Giving "-sst 0" (and 1,2,3) did not help.
Pressing 't' (--help says this cycles through subs) did not help.

Obviously the chapters marks are rubbish, since most start at 0, and end 
somewhere else.
However I removed the chapter definitions with MKVMergeGUI and it made no 
difference in playback.
What is interesting about this file, is VLC somehow finds the opening 
credits for the show, whereas
every other video player I tried on it starts immediately after this intro 
(with or without the chapter defs.)
Maybe this is something about the chapters?!

cheers,
-kt


# mythffplay troublesome_video.mkv

ffplay version 1.2.7 Copyright (c) 2003-2014 the FFmpeg developers
   built on Sep  7 2014 23:34:00 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
   configuration: --compile-type=profile --prefix=/usr --runprefix=/usr 
--disable-mythlogserver --enable-crystalhd --enable-lirc --enable-audio-alsa 
--enable-audio-oss --enable-dvb --enable-ivtv --enable-firewire 
--enable-joystick-menu --with-bindings=perl --enable-ffmpeg-pthreads 
--enable-pic --perl-config-opts='INSTALLDIRS=vendor' --enable-libvpx 
--enable-sdl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-opengl-video 
--enable-vaapi --cpu=i686 --enable-mmx --enable-vdpau
   libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
   libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
   libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
   libavdevice    54.  3.103 / 54.  3.103
   libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
   libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
   libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
   libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
[matroska,webm @ 0xaf9026a0] Unknown entry 0x6E67 sq=    0B f=0/0
     Last message repeated 1 times  0KB vq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
[matroska,webm @ 0xaf9026a0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015000 
microseconds
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'troublesome_video.mkv':
   Metadata:
     title           : Troublesome Video
     creation_time   : 2010-09-02 20:22:46
   Duration: 00:21:12.10, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3472 kb/s
     Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 89.965000
     Metadata:
       title           : Opening
     Chapter #0.1: start 0.000000, end 1239.905000
     Metadata:
       title           : Episode
     Chapter #0.2: start 0.000000, end 90.966000
     Metadata:
       title           : Ending
     Chapter #0.3: start 1239.947000, end 1272.062000
     Metadata:
       title           : Preview
     Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 
23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
     Metadata:
       title           : Troublesome Video
     Stream #0:1(jpn): Audio: flac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16 (default)
     Metadata:
       title           : 2.0 FLAC
     Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: ssa (default)
     Metadata:
       title           : English
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
     Stream #0:3: Attachment: unknown_codec
     Metadata:
       filename        : Brianne_s_hand.ttf
       mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
     Stream #0:4: Attachment: unknown_codec
     Metadata:
       filename        : frank.ttf
       mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
     Stream #0:5: Attachment: unknown_codec
     Metadata:
       filename        : AnisetteStdPetite-Demi.ttf
       mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
     Stream #0:6: Attachment: unknown_codec
     Metadata:
       filename        : OptimaLTStd.otf
       mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font
Seek to 92% ( 0:19:36) of total duration ( 0:21:12)       B f=0/0
[h264 @ 0xaf986bc0] mmco: unref short failure 0KB sq=    0B f=0/0




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