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How come I get a blank screen when I attempt to play my MythTV recordings?

April 26, 2017attempt blank MythTV play recordings screen

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How come I get a blank screen when I attempt to play my MythTV recordings?

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You are probably transcoding your recordings to a format that the MediaMVP is not capable of playing. Your recordings need to be in mpeg1/mpeg2 format. If your recordings are in some other video format, you can set up VLC to transcode them to mpeg1/mpeg2 on the fly for mvpmc.