[mythtv-users] Problem playing back videos encoded by Handbrake

[Christopher Kerr]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Giggins
<seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
> I've encoded a few kids DVD with Handbrake in windows recently using the
> normal profile to mkv but none of them can be played by mythtv 0.22-fixes
> from rpmfusion running on Mythdora10.21, I'm pretty sure I have other mkv's
> that I didn't encode myself that work fine
>
> 2010-01-31 14:49:35.966 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching Video, main) -- begin
> 2010-01-31 14:49:36.464 AFD Error: Could not open codec 0x62c18d0, id(AAC)
> type(Audio) aborting. reason -1
> 2010-01-31 14:49:36.464 NVP(0): Disabling Audio, params(-1,-1,-1)
> 2010-01-31 14:49:36.464 Couldn't open decoder for: /storage2/videos/Kids
> Shows/Elmo's World - Dancing, Music & Books.mkv
> 2010-01-31 14:49:36.464 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching Video, main) -- end
> error
>
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this or provide what settings work for them in
> handbrake to allow playback in mythtv?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony

Your error relates to the AAC audio stream - not sure why you're
having problems with it, but try MP3 (or AC3 passthrough) instead.

- Chris