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I get this error when trying to play a video.
This happens on Ubunty where I also uninstalled and reinstalled flash.
On Lubuntu laptop
and also on a Windows laptop with the latest flash.

Any ideas how I can fix it?



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Post a detailed log of you playing a video (see my sig) and confirm which version of ffmpeg you have for Linux

j-media-centre@jmediacentre-A880G:~/.serviio/log$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 0.8.3-4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the Libav developers
built on Jun 12 2012 16:37:58 with gcc 4.6.3
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
j-media-centre@jmediacentre-A880G:~/.serviio/log$

That version of ffmpeg is far too old. See the wiki for how to compile a newer version.

followed all that.
BTW, this command in your wiki:
sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev libvpx-dev librtmp0 librtmp-dev

actually removes a whole bunch of software from Ubuntu...not ideal!

Anyway, now on loading a video it works. However, full screen quqality is not very good, it has to be viewed in the samll size window to be dec3ent.
It appears a bit pixelated on fullscreen.

Change the quality from Medium to Original if you have enough upstream bandwidth.

already did that and it's running on another computer on a LAN so bandwidth should be v high

any ideas?

what is your ffmpeg version now? Post detailed log of when playing the file and also ffmpeg -i of the file.

j-media-centre@jmediacentre-A880G:~$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version git-2012-09-09-2474ca1 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Sep 9 2012 22:37:04 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-libxvid
libavutil 51. 72.100 / 51. 72.100
libavcodec 54. 55.100 / 54. 55.100
libavformat 54. 25.105 / 54. 25.105
libavdevice 54. 2.100 / 54. 2.100
libavfilter 3. 16.101 / 3. 16.101
libswscale 2. 1.101 / 2. 1.101
libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'
j-media-centre@jmediacentre-A880G:~$ ^C

That looks ok. Looks like you first tried MEDIUM quality and then ORIGINAL. The latter should give you the same quality as the source. If not, it might be down to your flash player..?

any ideas what the problem could be?