[mythtv-users] Could not open decoder error on some videos

[Andrew Wilkinson]

Hi,

I recently upgraded to MythTV 29 and mostly it’s worked fine, but one issue that I have is some of my videos (not recordings) don’t play any more. There is a black “Please wait” screen then it goes back to the menu with a “Could not open decoder” error message. I’ve included the relevant log lines from the frontend below.

2018-03-10 22:03:05.805560 I  TV::TV(): Creating TV object
2018-03-10 22:03:06.043987 N  Suspending idle timer
2018-03-10 22:03:06.064876 I  TV::Init(): Created TvPlayWindow.
2018-03-10 22:03:06.186015 I  TV::HandleStateChange(): Attempting to change from None to WatchingVideo
2018-03-10 22:03:06.783428 N  AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
2018-03-10 22:03:07.722608 I  AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
2018-03-10 22:03:07.726779 I  AFD: Opened codec 0x2f17af0, id(AAC) type(Audio)
2018-03-10 22:03:07.770945 I  DOMX:0 Installed h264_mp4toannexb filter
2018-03-10 22:03:07.793047 E  AFD: Could not open codec 0x2f14600, id(H264) type(Video) ignoring. reason Invalid data found when processing input
2018-03-10 22:03:07.793155 E  Couldn't open decoder for: myth://Videos@tv/Kids/Chuggington/Series 4/S4E15 Snow Patrol.mp4
2018-03-10 22:03:07.793206 E  Player(0): Unable to open video file.
2018-03-10 22:03:07.793220 E  playCtx: StartPlaying() Failed to start player
2018-03-10 22:03:07.793259 C  TV::StartPlayer(): Failed to create player.

It seems to be saying that the file is invalid, but it plays correctly other players, and MythTV 0.28. Is anyone aware of any changes that might have caused this? Is there anything I can do to get these files to play? I was considering reencoding them, but I’d rather not reencode already encoded files.

Thanks is advance for any help,
Andrew