[mythtv-users] avi playback in myth gallery Solved

[mike choy]

Dawson, Guy wrote:
> Sorry if this is not relevant to your setup, but I had trouble when I
> imported clips from my camcorder using DVGRAB.  When I finally got the
> import working,  the clips would not play through MythGallery.  I trace this
> to the format of the file names generated by DVGRAB which where something
> like DVGRAB.2006-01-05.hh-mm-yy.AVI . To get it working, I had to replace
> the dots (apart from in from of AVI) to get DVGRAB-2006-01-06-hh-mm-yy.AVI.
> Running mplayer from the command line with the original filename worked
> fine, so I suspect that the fault lay with the way mythgallery manages to
> filename internally.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Guy Dawson
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 25 January 2006 14:44
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] avi playback in myth gallery
>
>
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:50, cardboil wrote:
>   
>> On 1/24/06, Joseph A. Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 12:36, cardboil wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Joseph, what player does your Mythgallery use?  Internal or an
>>>> external one like mplayer or xine?
>>>>         
>>> Hmmm, I can't get into my system right now (wireless card flaking
>>> out again), but looking in the source code I see that the default
>>> command is "mplayer -fs <filename>".  I don't even think
>>> MythGallery supports 'Internal' at this point. Looks like movie
>>> file support went in around December 2004, so it would definitely
>>> be in 0.18.
>>>
>>>       
>> I'm using SVN from about mid-Dec 2005.  I can play the file, but
>> can't see the preview like you're able to (only a black
>> object)....wonder why?
>>
>>     
>
> I'll have to double-check when I get home tonight, but I *thought* I had 
> thumbnails...
>
> -JAC
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Yep thats done the trick
I had the AVI's in a directory called "xmas 2005" it objected to the 
space in the directory names.
Probably also has problems with dots and dashes as well. The really nice 
thing is now when I do a Slideshow
it plays the photos and the AVI's!!

Still no thumbnails with 0.181, but this seems to have been fixed in 0.19

Thanks every one for you help. The wife is very happy.

Mike C