In 0.18 I had all my music videos copied over to the /videos folder and when I ran the Setup -> videos it scanned the folder, found them all and I was able to play them. Now that i have 0.19 set up I have copied them all over and it appears to list them but I can not play them. Is there something I am missing?

I have chmod 777 * and that didn't seem to help. Is it because I used SCP to move them over?

A little more information... What format are the videos (.vob or .iso)? What are you using to play them?

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They are just simple .mpg .mpeg, .avi, .mov music videos that I copied over from a windows machine. On windows I use VLC, WM Player, Quicktime, anything works.

Have you setup the target player in 'file types' within the videos setup screen (drill down into myth setup)? For example, point .avi to "Internal".

Also check to make sure the files show up within Video Manager.

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No I left them all default, but they still appear to be right.

Try exiting the Frontend and running the command line setup in Video Settings>Player setting to try to play the video from and Xterm shell window.

(Exit FE, right click destop, Xterm, Xshell)

Then try this command



If that doesn't play the vid look for any error messages. It could be you don't have the right codecs loaded, I don't recall KM coming with codecs to play .mov file out of the box.

This topic is good howto on updating Mplayer and codecs.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... ht=mplayer

Also could be the istall picked up your video card as vesa rather than using nvidia drivers. This is common when installing on a box with 2 or more video cards.

Okay, I will get a console hooked back up to the myth box so I can test. Its running with an ATI 9800 video card, and a PVR - 250. When I press guide the entire frontend exits and crashs. I haven't seen anything in the logs yet that gives me a clue, although haven't spend more than 30 seconds on it, but would the video drivers explain that as well?

You don't have to do from a monitor. You can do it using keyboard and mouse when hooked to a TV.

Yeah on my 640/400 resolution big screen from the depression, you really do need a monitor. =)

Down the road I highly suggest using VNC if you have a laptop to sit in front of TV with or can see TV from another computer, beats lugging monitors and computers around.

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=x11vncHowTo

Yeah, I just set up X11 forwarding, and now I am sitting at work trying to fix another issue at the same time. =)

I can't get live TV to play over my cable upload... heheeh ... I wonder why. =)

Here is the output from the mplayer command: (p.s.: no laughing at the video... I have a friend of a friend who likes it. =)

MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


Setting up LIRC support...
Playing /mnt/gigs/video/pussycat_dolls-beep-dvdrip-svcd-2005-mvz.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 480x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 2496.0 kbps (312.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================


Exiting... (End of file)

So what happens on the frontend using command line to launch vid? Does the video play? AFAIK You won't be able to see video playing over VNC. There are no error messages so it appears that it should plays.

This thread looks similar to problems you are seeing but you had it working with .18. Does you video card show it is using the correct driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ?

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Okay, so yes, I bet thats the problem with the videos, and the skipping on the recordings. I have "vesa" listed as the driver. I have downloaded the newest drivers from ati and run the install in Xterm, and now I have aticonfig (after running GUI install) the problem is I don't know what to do with the aticonfig and what options to set, can someone help me with that?

Thanks for all your help guys, I am sure the driver is the issue I am having with all my issues:

1.) Vidoes not playing
2.) Guide exiting the frontend
3.) Chopping playback and high load on the machine

Help with driver options?

You may want to search around the forums for ATI help, I have seen a lot of ATI driver posts and seem to be diffrences in ATI chipsets. I had an ATI card way back but traded it for an nvidia card as my ATI card had driver issues too. You are more likley to find the driver setup info you need in an existing topic or posting a new topic that ATI owners may see and answer rather than burying it in this thread. My last easy suggestion is to replace "vesa" with "radeon" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but that may cause TV-out to stop working.



1 & 3 are VESA issues.

I found another thread that said his guide was exiting and it was a driver issues, so I still think all three are. I will open another thread for the driver help. Thanks guys!