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

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Aug 19 15:05:47 EDT 2004


On Thursday 19 August 2004 13:36, Isaac Richards wrote:
> 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.

Got a bug #? I can't seem to find it.

-JAC


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