Boxee crashes when starting MP4

**ubun2Junky** · August 19th, 2009, 08:16 PM

Boxee crashes whenever I try to start an MP4 file. I've got it running on ubuntu Jaunty. Everything else seems to be working in fine order except for the MP4 playback. Anyone run into this? Any suggestions? Thx!

**sdnick484** · August 20th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Can you post the logs (in /tmp). Also please run Boxee from a terminal and post any error messages that come up (stderr).

**ubun2Junky** · August 20th, 2009, 07:04 PM

This is what I'm getting when I run Boxee manually.

20/08/09 23:51:46#DEBUG#bxbgprocess.cpp:147(Start)#bg process initialized. 1 worker threads created.
20/08/09 23:51:46#DEBUG#bxcurl.cpp:70(Initialize)#curl initialized. version <7.18.2>

Running Boxee test...
And the log goes to... /tmp/nadia-boxee.log
is rtorrent running: 0
TIFF IMAGE: Not a TIFF or MDI file, bad magic number 26684 (0x683c).
TIFF IMAGE: Not a TIFF or MDI file, bad magic number 26684 (0x683c).
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 139 (NV-GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 12 ()
Resource id in failed request: 0x3c00002
Serial number of failed request: 499
Current serial number in output stream: 499
Segmentation fault

The log files show this:
17:54:03 T:2685467536 M:739983360 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://******@192.168.0.10/movies/kids/Barnyard.mp4
17:54:04 T:2685467536 M:748204032 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
17:54:04 T:2677074832 M:748204032 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
17:54:04 T:2677074832 M:748204032 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles
17:54:04 T:2677074832 M:748244992 INFO: CDVDFactorySubtitle::GetSubtitles, searching subtitles done
17:54:04 T:2677074832 M:748244992 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 INFO: ffmpeg: Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'smb://******@192.168.0.10/movies/kids/Barnyard.mp4':
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 INFO: ffmpeg: Duration: 01:29:41.27, start: 0.-50083, bitrate: 1692 kb/s
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 INFO: ffmpeg: Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 720x480, PAR 853:720 DAR 853:480, 48k tbr, 48k tbn, 96k tbc
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 INFO: ffmpeg: Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 INFO: ffmpeg: Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: text / 0x74786574
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 ERROR: CDVDPlayerVideo::OpenStream - Invalid framerate 48000, using forced 25fps and just trust timestamps
17:54:05 T:2677074832 M:734658560 NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 28
17:54:06 T:2677074832 M:734613504 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Creating VDPAU(720x480)
17:54:06 T:2677074832 M:734613504 NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Failed to get VDPAU device
17:54:06 T:2677074832 M:734613504 NOTICE: (VDPAU) ~CVDPAU
17:54:06 T:2677074832 M:734613504 INFO: GLX: Destroying glPixmap

**sdnick484** · August 21st, 2009, 01:07 PM

Which video card are you using? I see it's trying VDPAU, but I believe there's a bug that's causing a crash if you don't have a supported card (NVidia 8800GT and up I believe).

**ubun2Junky** · August 21st, 2009, 02:35 PM

I'm using a MSI NVIDIA GF FX 5200 128 MB Video Card. It works just fine on mythTV that I also ran on the same box (different hard drive).

**sdnick484** · August 22nd, 2009, 12:50 AM

That model does not support VDPAU (see here), so at best MythTV just ignored that setting and failed over gracefully to the default (xv would be my guess).

Anyways, you should be able to disable VDPAU under Video in Settings (I think it's listed with something like Hardware Acceleration -- just uncheck it). From there MP4 should work.