[mythtv-users] Crash on playing transcoded recording -headerdamaged

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 12:51 am, Will Dormann wrote:
> >I've tried saving as DivX 5.05 and also XVID but they both crash in the
> >same manner.  Is there a problem with MythTV's libavcodec handling of
> >recent-version DivX and XVID AVI files?    Or is it that because it's
> >MPEG4, MythTV is making the assumption that it's an NUV-format file?  
> > (and when I attempted MSMP4V2, it knew it wasn't NUV since it's not an
> > option to record in that format with MythTV)
>
> For testing purposes, I've put up a small transcoded clip.   I'm curious as
> to what other people will see.
> http://dormcam.org/snl_test.avi
>
> The test procedure is:
> 1) rename an existing .NUV recording file to something else (.bak or
> whatever) 2) Copy the above AVI file to your MythTV store directory and
> name it the same as the original one from step 1.
> 3) In MythTV's "Play Recordings" section, try playing (or live preview)
> that recording which you have replaced.
>
> Does your mythfrontend crash?   If not, have you done anything special with
> your setup, or are you running a very recent CVS version of MythTV?
>
> mplayer and all my other video apps seem to open the file fine.  It's a
> pretty standard XVID mpeg4 AVI file.
>
> Thanks in advance if anybody can help me out with this issue.

I already told you what's wrong.

Isaac