More distro-specific than usual posts, but hopefully ‘useful’..<\/p>\n
I found that Kodi<\/strong> on Fedora 25 would no longer play M2T\/MTS files.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frustratingly, there was no error shown, or apparent debug<\/em> clue, but the program just exited without any messages, when playback of one of these file types was selected.<\/p>\n After checking associated libraries and not getting any clues, I did find that the Fedora 26<\/strong> version played everything OK, despite the fact that the version (17.3-1<\/strong>) was the same as F25.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This was confirmed on four different systems..<\/p>\n I decided to try rebuilding the kodi rpm from source, using the ‘latest’ version, from here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/download1.rpmfusion.org\/free\/fedora\/development\/rawhide\/Everything\/source\/SRPMS\/k\/kodi-17.3-1.fc27.src.rpm<\/a><\/p>\n After sorting out and installing the required …devel.. rpms, the rpmbuild –rebuild<\/span><\/em> <\/strong>on F25 completed OK, and after (force) updating with the resulting set of rpms, everything works OK again..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Slightly annoying to not have the cause<\/span> of the problem, but at least this fixes it..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 June 18, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More distro-specific than usual posts, but hopefully ‘useful’.. I found that Kodi on Fedora 25 would no longer play M2T\/MTS files.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frustratingly, there was no error shown, or apparent debug clue, but the program just exited without any messages, when playback of one of these file types was selected. After checking associated libraries and not getting any …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,1238,1623,15,19],"tags":[1624,161,1625,1631,1627,1630,1626,1629,1628,1175],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-fix","category-kodi","category-linux-2","category-opinion","tag-fedora-25","tag-fix","tag-kodi","tag-latest-src-rpm","tag-m2t-mts-files-not-playing","tag-no-error-messages","tag-playback-problem","tag-rebuild","tag-rpmbuild","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}