MediaPlayer doesn't play any mediafile

[blutigerWilliam]

Mediaplayer doesn't play any mediafile. Tested it with *.avi, *.mp4, *.flv, *.mp3, *.ogg. Everytime i get a "General system error". This is hrev48448 x86_gcc2.

[anevilyak]

Could you attach a syslog from the time frame when you were seeing those errors?

[pulkomandy]

Which version of ffmpeg is installed? Can you run MediaPlayer from terminal and see if it prints any information there?

[blutigerWilliam]

Terminal shows the following output:

open playlist item: Feuershow Goldener Anker(1).mp4
Controller::SetTo: InitCheck failed
open playlist item: Sunny Domestozs - Monsters Of The Night.mp3
Controller::SetTo: InitCheck failed

[blutigerWilliam]

ffmpeg-0.11.5-2-x86_gcc2.hpkg, ffmpeg_x86-0.10.14-1-x86_gcc2.hpkg and ffmpeg_x86_devel-0.10.14-1-x86_gcc2.hpkg seem to be installed in /boot/system/packages.

[pulkomandy]

ffmpeg-0.11.5-2-x86_gcc2.hpkg

This is your problem, this version is broken. Delete this file from /boot/system/packages then install the working version (0.10.14):

rm /boot/system/packages/ffmpeg-0.11.5-2-x86_gcc2.hpkg
pkgman install ffmpeg

[blutigerWilliam]

Thank you! Works now. Ticket can be closed. Sorry for wasting your time. Seems weird though, because i have this problem on every of my 3 haiku machines. And i didn't install the broken ffmpeg-package by hand. Shouldn't packageman take care of such situations, when updating the system via packageman? (updating this installation since august/september via packageman)

[pulkomandy]

pkgman update will never downgrade packages. The 0.11.5 version was in the repo for a short time before this was noticed and it was reverted to 0.10.14, so if you updated at this moment, it was never downgraded since then. You can use pkgman full-sync to also downgrade packages and always exactly match what's in the repos.