[mythtv-users] Can't find A/V Decoder for DVDs

Charles Douglass chas.douglass at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 21:01:24 UTC 2011


I'm running 0.24 on Ubuntu 11.10 (using the PPA with recent updates).

For some time now I have only been able to play a few of my ripped
DVDs.  Many of them give an error "Can't find A/V decoder".  I think all
my BluRay rips work ok, it seems to be just some DVD rips.

I have tried ripping with both k9copy (using libdvcss(?)) and AnyDVD
(windows ripper from SlySoft).

Here is sample output:
~> mythfrontend -v playback
2011-10-31 13:57:14.367 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24
[v0.24.1-100-g19a63d4] www.mythtv.org
2011-10-31 13:57:14.401 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-10-31 13:57:14.402 Using configuration directory = /home/chas/.mythtv
2011-10-31 13:57:14.449 ThreadPool:HTTP: Initial 1, Max 25, Timeout 60000
2011-10-31 13:57:16.601 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-10-31 13:57:16.601 Using localhost value of oak
2011-10-31 13:57:16.773 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-10-31 13:57:16.776 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: hal
2011-10-31 13:57:17.641 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-10-31 13:57:17.643 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: hal
2011-10-31 13:57:17.646 Current locale EN_US
2011-10-31 13:57:17.694 Reading locale defaults from
/usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
2011-10-31 13:57:18.345 ScreenSaverX11Private: XScreenSaver support enabled
2011-10-31 13:57:18.346 DPMS is active.
2011-10-31 13:57:18.690 Desktop video mode: 1680x1050 59.954 Hz
2011-10-31 13:57:19.022 max_width: 1680 max_height: 1050
2011-10-31 13:57:19.025 user: 1000 effective user: 1000 before
privileged thread
2011-10-31 13:57:19.025 user: 1000 effective user: 1000 after privileged
thread
2011-10-31 13:57:19.025 user: 1000 effective user: 1000 run_priv_thread
2011-10-31 13:57:19.025 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general playback
2011-10-31 13:57:19.150 Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
2011-10-31 13:57:19.154 Desktop video mode: 1680x1050 59.954 Hz
2011-10-31 13:57:19.171 max_width: 1680 max_height: 1050
2011-10-31 13:57:19.171 Trying 1680x1050 0.000 Hz
2011-10-31 13:57:19.172 Dynamic TwinView rate found, set 2.06801e-316Hz
as XRandR 0
2011-10-31 13:57:19.172 SwitchToGUI: Switched to 1680x1050 0.000 Hz
2011-10-31 13:57:19.232 LIRC, Error: Failed to connect to Unix socket
'/var/run/lirc/lircd'
                        eno: No such file or directory (2)
2011-10-31 13:57:19.233 JoystickMenuThread: Joystick disabled - Failed
to read /home/chas/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2011-10-31 13:57:19.377 Using Frameless Window
2011-10-31 13:57:19.378 Using Full Screen Window
2011-10-31 13:57:20.994 Using the OpenGL painter
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: OpenGL vendor  : NVIDIA Corporation
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTS 250/PCI/SSE2
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: OpenGL version : 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: Max texture size: 8192 x 8192
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: Max texture units: 4
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: Direct rendering: Yes
2011-10-31 13:57:21.505 OpenGL: Initialised MythRenderOpenGL
2011-10-31 13:57:24.862 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-10-31 13:57:24.863 New DB connection, total: 3
2011-10-31 13:57:24.863 New DB connection, total: 4
2011-10-31 13:57:24.865 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: hal
2011-10-31 13:57:24.865 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: hal
2011-10-31 13:57:24.865 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: hal
2011-10-31 13:57:24.868 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264
2011-10-31 13:57:25.269 VDP: decoder<->render support: ffmpeg      null
xlib xshm xv-blit opengl vdpau
2011-10-31 13:57:25.269 VDP: decoder<->render support: vdpau       vdpau
2011-10-31 13:57:25.269 VDP: decoder<->render support: libmpeg2    null
xlib xshm xv-blit opengl vdpau
2011-10-31 13:57:25.373 VDP: Ignoring profile item 28 (decoder xvmc is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.374 VDP: Ignoring profile item 30 (decoder xvmc is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.377 VDP: Ignoring profile item 26 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.380 VDP: Ignoring profile item 32 (decoder ivtv is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.380 VDP: Ignoring profile item 33 (decoder xvmc is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.380 VDP: Ignoring profile item 34 (decoder xvmc is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.380 VDP: Ignoring profile item 35 (decoder xvmc is
not supported (supported: ffmpeg,vdpau,libmpeg2))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.396 VDP: Ignoring profile item 39 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.396 VDP: Ignoring profile item 40 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.399 VDP: Ignoring profile item 43 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.399 VDP: Ignoring profile item 44 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.402 VDP: Ignoring profile item 47 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.402 VDP: Ignoring profile item 48 (renderer
quartz-blit is not supported w/decoder ffmpeg (supported:
null,xlib,xshm,xv-blit,opengl,vdpau))
2011-10-31 13:57:25.404 VDP: Ignoring profile item 189 (Need a decoder
and renderer)
2011-10-31 13:57:34.740 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open themeinfo.xml
for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themeinfo.xml
2011-10-31 13:57:34.740 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme
(/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
2011-10-31 13:57:34.951 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open themeinfo.xml
for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml
2011-10-31 13:57:34.951 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme
(/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
2011-10-31 13:57:36.891 Pulse: PulseAudio suspend OK
2011-10-31 13:57:37.289 Pulse: PulseAudio resume OK
2011-10-31 13:57:37.660 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2011-10-31 13:57:38.077 Loading en_us translation for module mytharchive
2011-10-31 13:57:38.359 Registering WebBrowser as a media playback plugin.
2011-10-31 13:57:38.374 Loading en_us translation for module mythbrowser
2011-10-31 13:57:39.281 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.
2011-10-31 13:57:39.281 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.
2011-10-31 13:57:39.282 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty device path.
2011-10-31 13:57:39.282 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
2011-10-31 13:57:39.300 Loading en_us translation for module mythgallery
2011-10-31 13:57:40.172 Loading en_us translation for module mythgame
2011-10-31 13:57:43.029 Current MythMusic Schema Version
(MusicDBSchemaVer): 1017
2011-10-31 13:57:43.607 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40,
mp3,mp2,ogg,oga,flac,wma,wav,ac3,oma,omg,atp,ra,dts,aac,m4a,aa3,tta,mka,aiff,swa,wv)
2011-10-31 13:57:43.802 Loading en_us translation for module mythmusic
2011-10-31 13:57:44.206 Loading en_us translation for module mythnetvision
2011-10-31 13:57:44.372 Loading en_us translation for module mythnews
2011-10-31 13:57:44.929 Current MythVideo Schema Version
(mythvideo.DBSchemaVer): 1038
2011-10-31 13:57:45.091 Loading en_us translation for module mythvideo
2011-10-31 13:57:45.375 Starting update of BBC-Current-XML
2011-10-31 13:57:45.382 Starting update of BBC-3day-XML
2011-10-31 13:57:45.383 BBC-3day-XML recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.411 Starting update of NDFD-6_day
2011-10-31 13:57:45.412 NDFD-6_day recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.412 Starting update of NWS-Alerts
2011-10-31 13:57:45.413 NWS-Alerts recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.414 Starting update of NDFD-18_Hour
2011-10-31 13:57:45.415 NDFD-18_Hour recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.435 Starting update of NDFD-6_day
2011-10-31 13:57:45.436 NDFD-6_day recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.437 Starting update of NDFD-18_Hour
2011-10-31 13:57:45.438 NDFD-18_Hour recently updated, skipping.
2011-10-31 13:57:45.451 Loading en_us translation for module mythweather
2011-10-31 13:57:51.132 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'MythCenter-wide'
2011-10-31 13:57:51.476 'nice
/usr/share/mythtv/mythweather/scripts/uk_bbc/bbccurrentxml.pl -u ENG -d
/home/chas/.mythtv/MythWeather/BBC-Current-XML W0281' has exited
2011-10-31 13:57:51.517 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
192.168.1.13:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2011-10-31 13:57:51.519 Using protocol version 63
2011-10-31 13:57:55.638 MythVideo::ScanVideoDirectory Scanning
(/var/lib/mythtv/videos)
2011-10-31 13:58:02.849 RingBuf(dvd:/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1):
OpenFile(dvd:/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1, 2000 ms)
2011-10-31 13:58:02.865 OpenFile() trying DVD at
/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version svnR1215
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
NAME OPEN FAILED
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/chas/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00000000. Regions:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2011-10-31 13:58:03.514 Opened DVD device at
/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1
2011-10-31 13:58:03.514 There are 10 titles on the disk
2011-10-31 13:58:03.514 DVDRB: Title 1 has 21 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.514 DVDRB: Title 2 has 13 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.514 DVDRB: Title 3 has 13 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 4 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 5 has 2 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 6 has 2 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 7 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 8 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 9 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.515 DVDRB: Title 10 has 4 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:03.785 DVD Serial Number
2011-10-31 13:58:03.864 TV: StartTV() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.866 TV: ctor -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.885 TV: ctor -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:03.912 TV: Init -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.915 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.915 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:03.956 TV: Init -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:03.957 TV: tv->Playback() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.985 TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:03.985 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingDVD
2011-10-31 13:58:03.985 RingBuf(dvd:/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1):
OpenFile(dvd:/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1, 2000 ms)
2011-10-31 13:58:03.986 OpenFile() trying DVD at
/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version svnR1215
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
NAME OPEN FAILED
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/chas/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00000000. Regions:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2011-10-31 13:58:04.464 Opened DVD device at
/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 There are 10 titles on the disk
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 1 has 21 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 2 has 13 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 3 has 13 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 4 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 5 has 2 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 6 has 2 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 7 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 8 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 9 has 1 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.465 DVDRB: Title 10 has 4 parts.
2011-10-31 13:58:04.711 DVD Serial Number
2011-10-31 13:58:04.711 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingDVD, main) -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:04.711 TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor was
called: 845 ms
2011-10-31 13:58:05.320 Pulse: PulseAudio suspend OK
2011-10-31 13:58:05.381 DVDRB: DVDNAV_HOP_CHANNEL
2011-10-31 13:58:05.381 DVDRB: DVDNAV_HIGHLIGHT: display 1, palette 0,
sx 0, sy 0, ex 0, ey 0, pts 0, buttonN 1
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: DVDNAV_VTS_CHANGE: old_vtsN 0, new_vtsN
1, aspect 3, perm 2
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: ---- DVDNAV_CELL_CHANGE - Cell #1 Menu No
Length 305.9
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: Title #1: Length: 5198.0 seconds Part 1 of 21
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: DVDNAV_SPU_CLUT_CHANGE
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: DVDNAV_SPU_STREAM_CHANGE: physicalwide
128, physicalletterbox 132, physicalpanscan 128, currenttrack -128
2011-10-31 13:58:10.226 DVDRB: DVDNAV_AUDIO_STREAM_CHANGE: old 0 new 0
2011-10-31 13:58:10.788 Player(0), Error: Couldn't find an A/V decoder
for: '/var/lib/mythtv/videos/FIREFLY_D1'
2011-10-31 13:58:10.788 Unable to open video file.
2011-10-31 13:58:30.826 playCtx, Error: StartPlaying() Failed to start
player
2011-10-31 13:58:30.826 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin
2011-10-31 13:58:30.826 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.
2011-10-31 13:58:30.953 Pulse: PulseAudio resume OK
2011-10-31 13:58:30.954 Player(0): StopPlaying - end
2011-10-31 13:58:30.954 TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingDVD, main) -- end error
2011-10-31 13:58:30.963 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:30.963 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:30.963 TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:30.963 TV: tv->Playback() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:30.963 TV: StartTV -- process events begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.004 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
2011-10-31 13:58:31.004 ScreenSaverX11Private: ResetTimer -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.004 ScreenSaverX11Private: StopTimer
2011-10-31 13:58:31.005 ScreenSaverX11Private: StartTimer
2011-10-31 13:58:31.005 ScreenSaverX11Private: ResetTimer -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.006 ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS Deactivated 1
2011-10-31 13:58:31.007 ScreenSaverX11Private: ResetTimer -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.007 ScreenSaverX11Private: StopTimer
2011-10-31 13:58:31.007 ScreenSaverX11Private: StartTimer
2011-10-31 13:58:31.007 ScreenSaverX11Private: ResetTimer -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.007 TV: StartTV -- process events end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: StartTV -- process events 2 begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: StartTV -- process events 2 end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV::~TV() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.008 TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.019 TV::~TV() -- lock
2011-10-31 13:58:31.019 Player(0): StopPlaying - begin
2011-10-31 13:58:31.019 Player(0): Exited decoder loop.
2011-10-31 13:58:31.019 Player(0): StopPlaying - end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.026 TV::~TV() -- end
2011-10-31 13:58:31.027 TV: StartTV -- end

Anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or help of any kind?

Thanks
Chas



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