<div>Thanks Laurence - yes, I guess it was a bit of an assumption...</div><div><br></div><div>I think the pertinent errors are:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
2011-04-15 22:50:53.017 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.017 TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor was called: 268 ms</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 NuppelDecoder: lzo_init() failed, aborting</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 Player(0), Error: Could not initialize A/V decoder.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 Unable to open video file.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 playCtx, Error: StartPlaying() Failed to start player</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.815 Player(0): StopPlaying - end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.815 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- end error</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I obviously read NuppelDecoder as NUV - and (maybe because I've been upgrading for years now with much the same database?) the transcode jobs running on my backend produce NUV files. However, on testing, it would appear the same error occurs for both transcoded nuv files and pretranscoded mpgs. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, here is the log...</div><div><br></div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.473 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24 [v0.24-238-g2a9d9f5-dirty] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org">www.mythtv.org</a></div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.475 Using runtime prefix = C:/Program Files/MythTV</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.476 Using configuration directory = C:/Users/Jon/.mythtv</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.478 ThreadPool:HTTP: Initial 1, Max 25, Timeout 60000</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.544 Empty LocalHostName.</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.544 Using localhost value of CLOUD</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.545 Testing network connectivity to 'sqlsrv.home'</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.798 New DB connection, total: 1</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.864 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: sqlsrv.home</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.875 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.878 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: sqlsrv.home</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.882 Current locale en_GB</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.906 Reading locale defaults from C:/Program Files/MythTV/share/mythtv//locales/en_gb.xml</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.974 user: 0 effective user: 0 before privileged thread</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.974 user: 0 effective user: 0 after privileged thread</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.974 Enabled verbose msgs: important general playback general libav</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.974 user: 0 effective user: 0 run_priv_thread</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:37.987 Loading en_gb translation for module mythfrontend</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.203 Using Frameless Window</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.203 Using Full Screen Window</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.788 Using the OpenGL painter</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: OpenGL vendor : NVIDIA Corporation</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: OpenGL renderer: GeForce 9600 GT/PCI/SSE2</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: OpenGL version : 2.1.2</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: Max texture size: 8192 x 8192</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: Max texture units: 4</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: Direct rendering: Yes</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:38.987 OpenGL: Initialised MythRenderOpenGL</div><div><SNIP LOTS OF FONT WARNINGS I'M SURE YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE></div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.877 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.878 VDP: decoder<->render support: ffmpeg null direct3d opengl</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.878 VDP: decoder<->render support: libmpeg2 null direct3d opengl</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.891 VDP: Ignoring profile item 236 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.891 VDP: Ignoring profile item 237 (decoder xvmc is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.891 VDP: Ignoring profile item 238 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder libmpeg2 (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.891 VDP: Ignoring profile item 239 (decoder xvmc is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.892 VDP: Ignoring profile item 240 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder libmpeg2 (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.900 New DB connection, total: 2</div><div>
2011-04-15 22:50:39.900 VDP: Ignoring profile item 249 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.901 VDP: Ignoring profile item 250 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.901 VDP: Ignoring profile item 251 (renderer quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.901 VDP: Ignoring profile item 252 (renderer quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.902 New DB connection, total: 3</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.904 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: sqlsrv.home</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.905 VDP: Ignoring profile item 253 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.905 VDP: Ignoring profile item 254 (renderer xv-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.905 VDP: Ignoring profile item 255 (renderer quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.906 VDP: Ignoring profile item 256 (renderer quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported: null,direct3d,opengl))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.906 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: sqlsrv.home</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.909 VDP: Ignoring profile item 257 (decoder vdpau is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.913 VDP: Ignoring profile item 258 (decoder vdpau is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.913 VDP: Ignoring profile item 259 (decoder vdpau is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:39.917 VDP: Ignoring profile item 260 (decoder vdpau is not supported (supported: ffmpeg,libmpeg2))</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:40.804 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:40.850 Registering WebBrowser as a media playback plugin.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:40.866 Loading en_gb translation for module mythbrowser</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:41.016 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:41.018 Loading en_gb translation for module mythgallery</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:41.140 Loading en_gb translation for module mythgame</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.086 Current MythMusic Schema Version (MusicDBSchemaVer): 1017</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.213 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,mka,aiff,swa,wv)</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.235 Loading en_gb translation for module mythmusic</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.360 Current MythVideo Schema Version (mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1038</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.433 Loading en_gb translation for module mythvideo</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.440 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got 'Arial' instead</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Location: C:/Program Files/MythTV/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/menu-ui.xml @ 8</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Name: 'menufont'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Type: 'fontdef'</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:42.440 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Droid Sans', got 'Arial' instead</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Location: C:/Program Files/MythTV/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/menu-ui.xml @ 17</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Name: 'clock'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Type: 'fontdef'</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:43.075 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'MythCenter-wide'</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:43.105 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.1.70:6543">192.168.1.70:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:43.109 Using protocol version 63</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:43.384 Unable to determine local time zone settings. If local time zone settings differ from master backend settings, some functionality will fail.</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.749 TV: StartTV() -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.749 TV: ctor -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.759 TV: ctor -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.759 TV: Init -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.764 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.764 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.828 TV: Init -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.837 TV: tv->Playback() -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.852 TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- begin</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.852 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:52.857 RingBuf(myth://<a href="http://192.168.1.76:6543/1001_20110415210000.nuv">192.168.1.76:6543/1001_20110415210000.nuv</a>): OpenFile(myth://<a href="http://192.168.1.76:6543/1001_20110415210000.nuv">192.168.1.76:6543/1001_20110415210000.nuv</a>, 2000 ms)</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.017 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.017 TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor was called: 268 ms</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 NuppelDecoder: lzo_init() failed, aborting</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 Player(0), Error: Could not initialize A/V decoder.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:50:53.812 Unable to open video file.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 playCtx, Error: StartPlaying() Failed to start player</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.814 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.815 Player(0): StopPlaying - end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.815 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- end error</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.829 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.829 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.830 TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.830 TV: tv->Playback() -- end</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.830 TV: StartTV -- process events begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.850 TV: StartTV -- process events end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.850 TV: StartTV -- process events 2 begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.851 TV: StartTV -- process events 2 end</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.852 TV::~TV() -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.852 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.852 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.858 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.858 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.871 TV::~TV() -- lock</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.871 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.871 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.871 Player(0): StopPlaying - end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.945 TV::~TV() -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:13.967 TV: StartTV -- end</div><div>2011-04-15 22:51:32.390 OpenGL: Deleting OpenGL Resources</div>
<div>2011-04-15 22:51:32.417 Deleting UPnP client...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There was also a string of the below errors, which escaped my ">" logging. Not sure if they are related.</div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div><div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>
<div>QEventDispatcherWin32::unregisterTimer: invalid argument</div>