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me-tv has no demux plugin after Hardy upgrade

Asked by Ian M. Stewart

I recently did a dist-upgrade to Hardy, and now my Me-Tv will not work. I subsequently found that I needed to enable the repositories for lamothe Hardy main, and did this and got the updates from there. Me-tv still does not work. The symptoms now are that the program starts, displays the latest EPG and then hangs. The only reponse available is to use the x symbol to close the program, which raises a dialogue saying the program is not responding, and I can choose quit.

The me-tv.log shows normal operation up to this:

05/05/08 08:29:05 - Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin
05/05/08 08:29:05 - Exception in static void* XineEngine::video_thread_function(XineEngine*): Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin
05/05/08 08:29:05 - Pushing error message onto queue: Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin

I guess I need to update xine in some way, but I'm not sure how. Can someone help with this? Is this a bug? Thanks,

Ian

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#1

Sorry, I had not upgraded all the sources to hardy. I have now, and had a few updates to various files. The log now reads:

05/05/08 19:28:52 - Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin
05/05/08 19:28:52 - Exception in static void* XineEngine::video_thread_function(XineEngine*): Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin
05/05/08 19:28:52 - Pushing error message onto queue: Failed to open video stream: No demux plugin

So it seems I need the demux plugin, but where from?

Ian

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#2

A further upgrade has been received, and Me-Tv is now called "Digital Television" in the menu, and it now works OK. What can I say? Problem solved.

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Hi Ian,

Sorry that I only just read this. I didn't know that this question list even existed, I didn't get notified. I'm glad that you solved your issue, less work for me. Let me know ASAP if you have any other issues. I've now set myself as the answer contact for Me TV in Ubuntu.

Thanks,

Michael

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Ian M. Stewart (ims) said : 		#4

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply, I hope I haven't lumbered you with too much work by dragging you in here. ;-)

My "Digital Television" a.k.a. MeTv is working well now, thank you. I don't know why Ubuntu hides the names of the software it uses in this way. Similarly, I get "GNOME MPlayer" and "MPlayer Movie Player" together with "Movie Player" which is actually Totem, all in the same menu.

Much respect for all your hard work - MeTv 'just works' the way it should!

Ian

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Hi Ian,

Glad that you like it. I changed the name of the menu item due to public pressure in #me-tv on Freenode (IRC). People were telling me that it's more "user friendly" but I'm not particularly sold on the idea myself. I think the idea is that the user should not concern themselves with the stupid names that people come up with (i.e. Me TV) but rather, with what the program does. I'm a fairly pliable person so I just went along with it. In short, Ubuntu does not hide the names.

Me TV 0.6 is in development now so if you've got any ideas then be sure and let us know, if they are useful to me then I'll implement them myself. If you'd like to chat, jump onto #me-tv on Freenode.

Thanks,

Michael