[mythtv-users] problems with Internal player mythtv-mythvideo 0.15.1

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 01:21 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:53, xavier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've finally get my recordings available with mythtv 0.15.1, thanks
> > everyone that helped me. There's still one problem dealing with
> > watching videos:
> > mythvideo 0.15.1 calling the Internal player leads to a black screen
> > and freezes mythfrontend. It's not a question of unrecognized video
> > file format, as I used to watch the same .mpg files with the Internal
> > player in mythtv-mythtvideo 0.14. It cannot also deal with opening
> > any bad audio device, as the Internal player works fine with livetv
> > or watching recordings.
> >
> > Is there a bug with mythtv 0.15.1 Internal player working with other
> > formats than .nuv? Has anyone experienced this odd behaviour? What
> > did you do?
>
> Yes, I've been experiencing this for some months with CVS.  I even tried
> playing my mythvideo files from the command line with "mythtv
> <file.avi>".  That worked just fine; it's only when using the embedded
> 'Internal' player from within mythvideo that it hangs.  Not sure what
> the problem is; I've gone back to mplayer for now.  I think I posted
> about this before, and no one responded.  Now that it seems at least
> one other person is seeing this, perhaps a Bugzilla report is
> warranted.

There already is one.

Isaac