video playback not working on OSX

[matysek]

Video playback does not work on Mac OS X (tested on Lion). The video does not even come up.

I think we need to test properly the code from media rewrite branch and port it for Mac OS X.

[Andreas Preikschat (googol-deactivatedaccount)]

What extensions did you test? Did these extensions work *before* the rewrite?

[matysek (mzibricky)]

A user confirmed this in discussion forum: http://openlp.org/en/forums/general-support/troubleshooting/no-video-mac-os-x-lion

[rimach (crichter)]

I don't know, whats the problem, but may this helps:

http://wiki.videolan.org/Talk:Python_bindings

[Jonathan Corwin (j-corwin)]

Was a solution found for this, is it likely to be fixed for 1.9.9?

[matysek (mzibricky)]

Solution is not found yet. It is unlikely to be fixed for 1.9.9. For the 1.9.9 mac build I'll not include the vlc backend.

[Andreas Preikschat (googol-deactivatedaccount)]

But phonon does work, right?

[matysek (mzibricky)]

Phonon seems also not working. I tried to play .mov file and got message 'Unsupported file format.'

[Brian Meyer (briantmeyer)]

This is further investigation into this.

Using 10.6 mac
Using OpenLP 1.9.10 build bzr2037 which seems to work a little better ( has vlc as an option )

Researching this, the vlc version is of the 3 possible versions
I ran another project to see the errors, and it seemed like the universal actually works the best, or in theory should work the best, but never got that project to work. Strongly think this is due to the wrong architecture. ( 64 or 32 bit, intel or power pc, seems like it's mach ). However end users can have any of these, but the vlc project says their ctypes can deal with any of these.

vlc-2.0.3 univ.dmg
vlc-2.0.3-powerpc.dmg
vlc-2.0.3-intel32.dmg

These install into the applications folder, and it references the following files
/applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libvlc.dylib
    ( note this also has a libvlc.5.dylib and a libvlc.2.dylib depending on version)
/applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/
/applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/plugin.dat

[b]Double clicking video in media list[/b]
Preview window video, using mp4 and mov file which are known to work, will focus on mp4 file here
Set "Use Player:" to ( note the menu is far too small to read, needs to be 4 times as wide )
VLC
black, has console output
7/26/12 11:44:10 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0x1e033a98] main video output error: video output creation failed
7/26/12 11:44:10 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0xfa9698] main decoder error: failed to create video output
7/26/12 11:44:11 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0x1e66e098] main video output error: video output creation failed
7/26/12 11:44:11 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0x1c92ce98] main decoder error: failed to create video output
7/26/12 11:44:14 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0x1c935698] main video output error: video output creation failed
7/26/12 11:44:14 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] [0x1cd8d098] main decoder error: failed to create video output

Webkit
Plays small video
no console output
brief sound that cuts off

Phonon
Unsupported File dialog, can hit ok
no console output

[b]Now hitting go live in media list, same video, only enable one type of the 3 in prefs[/b]

Webkit only
Video is black
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[81543] WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
7/26/12 11:47:52 PM [0x0-0x157157].org.openlp[815...

[matysek (mzibricky)]

Vlc option is removed In release builds.