Oops, my mistake. I don't know what happened earlier, but keyboard is working now. I'm still having the problem with the remote. Only a few of the keys do what they're supposed to. Most of the keys that I see mapped in ~/.mythtv/lircrc such as Off, MENU, Rew, FFW, etc. have no effect.

Hello, I'm hoping this is the corrent topic for this. I have a clean installation of R5D1 and my old avi, and mpeg files that used to play with R5C7 no longer play.
I followed the instructions in the first post of this topic for updating essentials, codecs and xvidcore, got no errors, looks fine.
Still when I got to Media Library > Watch Videos the vids have titles but only big square boxes that don't play.
I go to Utilities/Setup > Video Manager and the files have Unknown and a question mark.
I go to Utilities/Setup > Setup > Media Settings > Videos Settings > File Types and mpg, mpeg, and avi extensions exist, the command field is empty, and Use default player is checked.
Default Player says, mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s.
The files seem ok, I can play them from windows w/ samba from the /mythtv/myth/videos directory.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Update: The files were fine. The player was fine. I hadn't realized those big blank boxes in Videos usually held the desctription of the video. I hit Play and they go. Doh! I can populate the descriptions myself in Video Manager.

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R6.03

Run mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv <your-file-name.avi> on the command line and see what error it returns. In my case, MPlayer was failing because the AVI's resolution was higher than what ivtv could support for my PVR-350. Switching from -xv to -x11 solved the problem for me.

I think I erred somewhere.

I downloaded the three tar files;
created the codecs directory in usr/bin;
untarred them as described;
moved the essential* files to the codecs directory;

then I ran the step
[code:1]$ cd xvidcore/build/generic
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install[/code:1]


Then, because I'm an idiot and didn't entirely understand that I wasn't supposed to run make on mplayer, I switched to the untarred directory where I'd downloaded and untarred the Mplayer-1.0pre8 files, and followed the instructions to run
./configure
and
make

I viewed pages and pages of warnings and/or errors before it ended.

I did -not- run make install on the Mplayer-1.0.pre8 files.

Did I screw up anything here? It didn't give me the message to run make install and I like to imagine that basically a build wouldn't configure live files or programs, but as a newbie to linix compiling, I'm not entirely sure.

Edit: well, everything that worked before still seems to work, so I seem to be ok.

At first, I still couldn't get an xvid avi to play, but after I changed the command line from blank for avi file extensions, and clicked off use default, it worked.

Thanks so much for this post - I'm finally able to watch some H.264 hockey games on my mythtv box!

cheers

Looks like new version of MPlayer 1.0rc1 is out today, if anyone wants to give it a shot.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/? ... _id=239312

mplayerhq.hu is getting hammered at the moment though.

Cool, updated the main guide w/ the new version.

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HI,
If you put in a jpg or png into the /myth/video/.covers/ then you can edit the entry after a scan and put a picture in the big blank square.

I sometimes copy recordings into /myth/video to hold on to a series and after I have copied the file I also copy the matching thumb into the .covers. Now I can match the thumb to the show. Once copied use the usual means to remove them from the tv recordings to regain the space.

As a tip, if you do a long list of pretty you get the "real" name and the recorded name. so do the copy as recordedname.mpg realname.mpg Then copy recorded-name.mpg.png real-name.png

Mike

I run the update, but I lost the subtitles. (vobsub I guess)
When I play a xvid with a subtitle in the same folder (worked before) I have no subtitle.

I´m still a newbe.

Have a nice day to you all.
Jazz festival here in Umea Sweden.
Going to listen to John Scofield on Saturday.

Can't help ya man -- I haven't used subtitles w/ mplayer ever. Maybe someone else can help you out or try google out.

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I following the instructions for R5D1 (or thought I did).
After the dpkg -r mplayer stuff

mplayer -version
was unrecognized
I panicked and apt-get mplayer again.
Now mplayer -version give me the pre8 that I had, but the Music in the MythFrontend is broken as are the Music Tools & Settings. Clicking these menu choices now does nothing.
My guess is mplayer is now in some different path than it was, and myth music is not happy. Any tips on where to set the path for music?

An FYI a new version of XviD was released in Nov, Xvid 1.1.2.

I compiled and installed the new version Xvid 1.1.2 with MPlayer 1.0rc1 on a R5C7 system and so far so good no issues.

Updated the 1st guide (for R5D1) a little bit. Lemme know if you see any errors.

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i ran the upgrade.. nice! thanks for the time!

Has anyone been able to play RMVB files? I havent seem to be able to get those up and running out of the box.. and neither with this upgrade of codecs.

Any hints or suggestions?

Cool, glad to see the new procedure works (just kidding)!



Hmm.. according to the wikipedia, mplayer should do it. I googled a bit for you can found this post. Try this:

Since you already installed mplayer, fonts, xvid, you should just have to rebuild mplayer since the codec support as I understand it must be present at the time of the build.

I'd uninstall your current version first which requires you to

(If you deleted the source dir you installed from, just tar -xjf the source again and run ./configure then you can do the make uninstall).

Then simply repeat the install of just mplayer and let us know if it worked

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