[mythtv-users] mythgallery and videofiles

[Paul Harrison]

Dart Moory wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have found next problem with mythgallery.
> When I am browsing DVD's with collections of pictures and videos 
> (.avi) with mythgallery and the filenames of video files contain a dot 
> (for example, Summer.2006.avi) they will not be played. Also there are 
> no thumbnails for these files, just black squares.
> There is no problem with .jpg, only with video files.
> The problem disappears when I copy any file to HDD and rename it.
> But most of my files are on DVDs and can not be renamed.
>
> I use Ubuntu 7.10 and all mythtv packages were installed from the 
> official Ubuntu repositories. As player for video files I use mplayer, 
> command "mplayer -fs %s".
>
> Is it general problem or just my?
> Is it possibly to resolve this problem?
>
> Thank you.
> Dart.
>

What version are you using? The dot bug should be fixed in the 0.21
release or later.

http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4542

Paul H.