[mythtv-users] New setup: Frontend won't play recorded programs

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2010 07:37 PM, steve wrote:
>>
>> I have still been unable to resolve this problem, but have been
>> researching it and I think I can rule some things out. Again the
>> symptoms are that the system will schedule and record programs, but
>> once recorded the frontend doesn’t show any screenshots of the
>> programs and won’t play them back--attempt shows the screen saying the
>> recording is loading then dumps back out to the menu. (The log
>> material I posted before was kind of messy, so I deleted all the
>> recordings but one and set mythfrontend to make a log, and the entries
>> for startup and one attempt to play the recorded file are at the end
>> of this message. )
>>
> ...
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.171 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching
>> WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- begin
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: Opened codec 0x391ed20, id(H264) type(Video)
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 [libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library:
>> libfaad.so could not be opened!
>>
>> libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x391f360,
>> id(AAC) type(Audio) aborting. reason -1
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.381 Couldn't open decoder for:
>> /video/recordings/1708_20100118210000.mpg
>>
>> 2010-01-19 16:57:25.382 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching
>> WatchingPreRecorded, main) -- end error
>>
>
> That "[libfaad @ 0x38cc9ef6e0]FAAD library: libfaad.so could not be
> opened! libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory" seems to indicate a broken compile/install.
>
> Mike

Indeed it looks to me as if myth is compiled with faad but the faad
libraries are not included as a dependency. Try installing them
manually?