[mythtv-users] New setup: Frontend won't play recorded programs

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jan 20 02:28:22 UTC 2010


On 01/19/2010 07:37 PM, steve wrote:
>
> I have still been unable to resolve this problem, but have been
> researching it and I think I can rule some things out. Again the
> symptoms are that the system will schedule and record programs, but
> once recorded the frontend doesn’t show any screenshots of the
> programs and won’t play them back--attempt shows the screen saying the
> recording is loading then dumps back out to the menu. (The log
> material I posted before was kind of messy, so I deleted all the
> recordings but one and set mythfrontend to make a log, and the entries
> for startup and one attempt to play the recorded file are at the end
> of this message. )
>
...
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.171 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching
> WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: Opened codec 0x391ed20, id(H264) type(Video)
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 [libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library:
> libfaad.so could not be opened!
>
> libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x391f360,
> id(AAC) type(Audio) aborting. reason -1
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 Couldn't open decoder for:
> /video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg
>
> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.382 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching
> WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- end error
>

That "[libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library: libfaad.so could not be
opened! libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory" seems to indicate a broken compile/install.

Mike


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