MPV locks up when playing .MOV files

[mvallevand]

Sorry for the hijack, quick question on the same topic. In the International Cinema plugin that McBainUK authored there is a script to convert all movs to mpeg offline to play on the mvp. Are you guys saying that if you rename to avi, then it will be autotranscoded on the fly during playback?

That's exactly what I do.

Martin

[sub]

Sub,
Would it be hard to institute sending all videofile types for auto transcoding if they are going to the MVP as long as they are do not have the MPEG1, or MPEG2 extension? FFMPEG handles most file types with great ease. I assume that this would not be too difficult to address in code.
I too have a feeling that as time goes on we will see more and more downloadable video content in various formats. A dominant player due to apple, itunes and now Youtube is going to be H264 video format in MOV/mp4 container. It would be nice in the long run if GBPVR/ MPV could handle the various formats (not just the MOV) with ease.
Thanks.
zehd ... did a little test of my own. Created an executable that would pass on parameters to FFMPEG (like your Zprocess does...but much more basic, as a debugging tool). It appears that GBPVR actually does not even attempt to pass files names to FFMPEG. I initially thought that based on the logs that it was actually passing on an incorrect filename. This does not appear to the case. So an external fix is not possible. Thanks for looking into this.

Yes. GB-PVR will not pass a MOV file type to a transcoder. sub said it can't be done. Don't know why he thinks that. When I can transcode the files with either ffmpeg or mencoder. Must be some other reason

There is no complex reason. I dont tend to use .mov files, and I dont think anyone has ever asked for it in the past, so its just not something it currently attempts to do. For the next release I'll add it to the list of extensions it'll attempt to transcode. Its only a 2 second change.

[zehd]

There is no complex reason. I dont tend to use .mov files, and I dont think anyone has ever asked for it in the past, so its just not something it currently attempts to do. For the next release I'll add it to the list of extensions it'll attempt to transcode. Its only a 2 second change.

That's great sub thanks...

[rtmey2000]

Thanks Sub,

Greatly appreciated.
Rtmey2000