[mythtv-users] avi files (and only avi files) not playing with Internal player in mythvideo

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Peter Dash <pdash.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure exactly when it started happening but after an update
> sometime around (I think) late November MythVideo stopped being able
> to play avi files. iso and mkv files seem to be fine, it's just avi
> files. The relevant bit of the logs is:
>
>

perhaps important info could be gleaned by running mythfrontend with -v
playback ?


> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.820368 I  MythEvent: PLAYBACK_START peregrine
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.820511 N  Resuming idle timer
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.820558 N  Suspending idle timer
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.820640 I  Locking input devices
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.844023 I  Managed child (PID: 25966) has started!
> * command=internal
> "myth://Videos@192.168.1.60:6543/Breaking_Bad/Season_2/S02E01.avi",
> timeout=0
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.844252 I  (0x96812e0)::IncrRef() -> 2
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.963015 I  Managed child (PID: 25966) has exited!
> command=internal
> "myth://Videos@192.168.1.60:6543/Breaking_Bad/Season_2/S02E01.avi",
> status=32512, result=127
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.963608 I  (0x96812e0)::DecrRef() -> 1
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.963668 I  (0x96812e0)::DecrRef() -> 0
> 2013-01-02 16:40:37.963761 I  MythEvent: PLAYBACK_END peregrine
>
> Which suggests that it at least tries to start playing but immediately
> exits again. The avi files are in the same storage group and have the
> same permissions as the mkv files that do play, and they play fine
> with an external player (which is how I've been getting around this)
> but it would be nice to find out what the problem might be and fix it
> if at all possible. This is a pretty stock mythbuntu 12.04.1 install,
> Mythtv version v0.26.0-70-gff4edc7 (current 0.26/fixes branch of
> mythbuntu).
>
> Peter
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