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

[belcampo]

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.
Check for /usr/lib/libfaad.so or /usr/loca/lib/libfaad.so
> 
> OK I ran yum install faad2 which did an update (I think) rather than a fresh
> install, and alas, I get the exact same result :-(
> 
> As for a broken compile, I'm using the rpm from RPM Fusion.  Those are
> pre-compiled, aren't they?  I found this thread
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-November/238766.html from
> two years ago with someone having a similar problem that was trying to
> handle it with compile options and had to install libfaac-dev, but that was
> two years ago, so...
> 
> I don't recall any errors on installation that would suggest a problem.  
> 
> One thing is that I installed it with yum install mythtv.  I have seen
> directions in other places that say to install mythtv-suite.  Could that
> explain things?
> 
> Steve
> 
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