[mythtv-users] Can't see ogv videos

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Sun May 31 18:48:32 UTC 2015



> On 31 May 2015, at 11:54 pm, "Mike's JdJ" <stepsisters at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Really?  No one else is getting a black screen playing ogv in the MythTV FrontEnd?  No one here has any idea what might be wrong?
> 
>> On 05/26/2015 07:34 PM, Mike's JdJ wrote:
>> 
>> Something changed and I don't know where to look.
>> 
>> In MythTV FrontEnd, when I play a .ogv video, I get the
>> soundtrack, but a black screen.
>> 
>> The files used to play fine, but now have no video.
>> 
>> The videos are stored in var/lib/mythtv/videos
>> 
>> The files play fine with VLC and Videos.
>> 
>> mp4 and mkv files in the same folder play fine in the MythTV
>> FrontEnds.
>> 
>> I used to watch the same files fine on Ubuntu 11.04 and MythTV
>> 0.24.  Now I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and MythTV v0.27.4-64-g8fd277b.
>> 
>> The ogv black screen FrontEnd problem is on the MythTV BackEnd
>> desktop AND the remote FrontEnds.
>> 
>> A typical ogv stream is Xiph.org's Theora Video, resolution
>> 400x304, display resolution 400x300, frame rate 29.97, mythtv
>> permission Read-only
>> 
>> In Ubuntu Software, I have the main, universe, restricted, and
>> multiverse checked.  No proprietary drivers.
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Really?  No one else is getting a black screen playing ogv in the MythTV FrontEnd?  No one here has any idea what might be wrong?
> _______________________________________________
> 

I don't have any ogv files to test. What do the logs say?


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