[mythtv-users] mpg files fail with 0.27.1

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 2 June 2014 15:04, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:

>
> Same with mythavtest:
>
>
> [snip]
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.315372 I  TV: Creating TV object
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.345452 N  Suspending idle timer
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.346540 I  TV: Created TvPlayWindow.
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.527304 I  TV: Attempting to change from None to
> WatchingVideo
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.617956 N  AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.641542 I  AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.641638 I  AFD: Opened codec 0x3b9e1c0, id(MP2)
> type(Audio)
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.658768 I  VDPAU: Version 1
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.658787 I  VDPAU: Information NVIDIA VDPAU Driver
> Shared Library  331.67  Fri Apr  4 11:46:48 PDT 2014
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.664686 E  AFD: Could not open codec 0x3b8ca20,
> id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video) ignoring. reason Invalid argument
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.664731 E  Couldn't open decoder for:
> /mnt/videos/TestFile.mpg
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.664744 E  Player(0): Unable to open video file.
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.664750 E  playCtx: StartPlaying() Failed to start player
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.665727 I  TV: Main UI disabled.
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.665944 I  TV: Entering main playback loop.
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.687589 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.688612 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 192.168.1.10:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.696568 I  Using protocol version 77
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.698946 I  TV: Exiting main playback loop.
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.718025 N  Resuming idle timer
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.778976 I  OpenGL1: Deleting OpenGL Resources
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.779045 I  OpenGL: Deleting OpenGL Resources
> 2014-06-02 16:49:59.941262 I  Waiting for threads to exit.


It's a FFmpeg bug (#2915: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2915)

disable VDPAU for the time being, it may help