[mythtv-users] Problem with DVB-recordings.

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 23:03:26 UTC 2007


On 09/02/07, Jan Johansson <j2 at mupp.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I followed http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Tzap  to capture some
> data from my DVB-card.
>
> Mplayer plays the file fine, but in MythTV (using Xine, under "Media
> Library -> Watch Video") I get "Unable to initialize video".

If you run xine from the console, what errors are output? Are you
recording the file in TS format?

> I can't figure out what I am missing. Or does Xine not handle this file
> type?

Have you tried MythTV's own Internal player? When configuring
MythVideo choose Internal as the media player.

Nick
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