[mythtv-users] Mythtv can't play "Bergensbanen"

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 06:58:29 UTC 2014


In short it is the container. Wouldn't play in mythavtest and got the message

2014-06-17 18:55:08.807741 I  RingBuf(Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4):
Waited 15.2 seconds for data
            to become available... 4161536 < 5189405
2014-06-17 18:55:09.057997 I  RingBuf(Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4):
Waited 15.5 seconds for data
            to become available... 4161536 < 5189405
2014-06-17 18:55:09.308248 I  RingBuf(Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4):
Waited 15.8 seconds for data
            to become available... 4161536 < 5189405
2014-06-17 18:55:09.558503 I  RingBuf(Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4):
Waited 16.0 seconds for data
            to become available... 4161536 < 5189405
2014-06-17 18:55:09.558536 E  RingBuf(Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4):
Waited 16 seconds for data, aborting.
2014-06-17 18:55:09.560549 E  AFD: avformat err(-1094995529) on
avformat_open_input call.
2014-06-17 18:55:09.560585 E  Couldn't open decoder for:
Videos/BergensBanen(2009).mp4
2014-06-17 18:55:09.560620 E  Player(0): Unable to open video file.
2014-06-17 18:55:09.560636 E  playCtx: StartPlaying() Failed to start player


I thought I'd try to remux to mkv but mkvmerge didn't want to know either.

However ffmpeg did:

ffmpeg -i BergensBanen.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec BergensBanen.mkv

created a file that mythavtest worked with.

With the original file mplayer worked, xbmc worked, vlc worked, myth didn't.


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