[mythtv-users] After upgrade, can't play mkv files

Jack McGee jack at greendesk.net
Sun Dec 5 21:10:13 UTC 2010


After doing an upgrade to latest trunk from Avenard repository this 
weekend, myth video can no longer play h264 mkv files it could play 
previously.  MPG files are fine.

Mplayer can play them from it's gui.

This is what I get from mythtv when I try to play the video:

2010-12-05 15:00:26.987 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingVideo
2010-12-05 15:00:26.987 
RingBuf(myth://Videos@192.168.0.104:6543/level4/test.mkv): 
OpenFile(myth://Videos@192.168.0.104:6543/level4/test.mkv, 2000 ms)
2010-12-05 15:00:27.128 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2010-12-05 15:00:27.128 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2010-12-05 15:00:27.128 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingVideo, main) -- begin
2010-12-05 15:00:27.128 TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor was 
called: 255 ms
2010-12-05 15:00:27.487 [matroska,webm @ 0x7e0c20]Read error at pos. 
4659 (0x1233)
2010-12-05 15:00:27.487 AFD Error: Could not find codec parameters. file 
was "myth://Videos@192.168.0.104:6543/level4/test.mkv".
2010-12-05 15:00:27.487 Couldn't open decoder for: 
myth://Videos@192.168.0.104:6543/level4/test.mkv
2010-12-05 15:00:27.487 Unable to open video file.
2010-12-05 15:00:47.515 playCtx, Error: StartPlaying() Failed to start 
player
2010-12-05 15:00:47.515 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin
2010-12-05 15:00:47.515 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.
2010-12-05 15:00:47.515 Player(0): StopPlaying - end
2010-12-05 15:00:47.516 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingVideo, main) -- end error




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