[mythtv-users] MythIPTV Beta 2

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Tue Feb 27 14:08:50 UTC 2007


Phill Edwards wrote:
>> Oh, the problem here is that file isn't a video. It's a playlist
>> containing other videos by the look of it. Download it with wget and
>> check it out...
> 
> Aah - I didn't realise that .wmv files could be a sort of playlist.
> You're right that the .wmv file contains the actual links to the video
> file. So I dropped the tables again and re-ran it with the link to the
> video from the .wmv fie to see what would happen but I still got an
> error:
> 
> [mythtv at elm mythnettv]$ ./mythnettv --log
> None None
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Creating log table
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Creating settings table
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Creating programs table
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Creating subscriptions table
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Settings value chanid defaulted to 1034
> 2007-02-27 23:29:52 Settings value loglines defaulted to 1000
> 2007-02-27 23:30:35 Creating mythnettv_programs row with guid of
> http://media3.abc.net.au/winlibrary/news/200702/20070226-opener-am2_16_9_bband.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
> [mythtv at elm mythnettv]$ ./mythnettv --download 1
> Downloading http://media3.abc.net.au/winlibrary/news/200702/20070226-opener-am2_16_9_bband.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf
> Destination will be data/20070226-opener-am2_16_9_bband.wmv
> Downloading
> Finished
> Done
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./mythnettv", line 957, in ?
>     DownloadAndImport(db, guid)
>   File "./mythnettv", line 850, in DownloadAndImport
>     program.Import()
>   File "./mythnettv", line 651, in Import
>     duration = datetime.timedelta(seconds = video.Length())
>   File "./mythnettv", line 52, in Length
>     return float(self.values['ID_LENGTH'])
> KeyError: 'ID_LENGTH'
> 
> There must be something about the link to that video that it doesn't
> like, do you think? But if I put that link into Windows Media Player
> it plays it fine.

This is still because mplayer couldn't determine the length of the
video. What happens if you execute:

mplayer -frames 0 -identify <wmv file>

On the command line? Can you send me the URL you're using?

Mikal


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