[mythtv-users] MythVideo/xine problems

[Captain Krypto]

I read a post on the dev list that says mythvideo shells out to the external
player...  (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/135931).  Does
any one have any idea how this is done?...  it seems that if I could figure
out how mythvideo is executing xine,  I would be a step closer to solving my
problem.

On 4/10/06, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Warren.  That was my first thought as well.  The
> directory from which mythvideo reads the file is actually a mount to the
> backend system.  To be absoultly sure, I ran a "chmod -R 777" on the entire
> mounted directory and still had the problem.  I did forget to mention that I
> am able to watch videos though mythvideo using the default mplayer
> command... I was getting some audio/video sync issues with mplayer that
> aren't present with xine.  Xine runs fine when launching from the command
> line...  so, is there another layer between xine and mythtv?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> On 4/10/06, Warren <warren-lists at icruise.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Captain Krypto wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I had xine successfully working in MythVideo, but now it stopped
> > working.  When I try to launch a movie through MythVideo I get the xine
> > splash screen and the following output in the mythfrontend log:
> >
> > sh: line 1: <path to avi file>: Permission denied
> >
> > I am using the command "xine -pfhq --no-splash %s" in the set up
> > section.  If I use that same command from the command line, everything works
> > as expected.  ( i.e. xine launches with the arguments and play the
> > video)  I've tried numerous videos and all have the same result.  I haven't
> > made any updates to the system since it was working and I know that the
> > working setup had survived a few reboots.  I am using a PVR-350 for TV out,
> > but since I can see the xine splash screen, it doesn't look like that
> > figures into the equation and since I get the same behavior when launching
> > mythfront from the command line on my desktop.  I was hoping that someone
> > had run into this problems before, or could give me some pointers to
> > troubleshoot it further.  Also, how does mythvideo handle external video
> > players?  It looks like from the error, that xine is launched through
> > mythvideo via some sort of shell script... is that correct?  Any input it
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
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> >   Sounds like the file is owned by whomever you are logged in as when you
> > are running from the command line but not the user that mythvideo is running
> > as and that myth user does not have read permission to the file.  Try "chmod
> > 644 <path to .avi file>" without the quotes.  That should allow any user on
> > the system to view the file.
> >
> > W
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