miro in FM stopped working

[shimonl]

As I mentioned a few days ago, I just set up a new partition with FullMonty.
Yesterday I ran synaptic, to do a full update of all installed software. Then I
tried it out, and was drooling over the millions of new packages I had never seen or tried before.

One of them was miro, which seems to play youtube videos within an application window.
When I tried to play one, it said I needed to install Adobe flash. Hmm... I tried youtube
in firefox and it worked fine! So obviously flash is here, and works.

Now, here is where I get confused. I don't remember what exactly I did
in the miro, but after closing it down, it no longer agrees to start at all!

When I start from a shell, I get these messages:
$ miro
using /usr/bin/gdb
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mutagen/m4a.py:41: DeprecationWarning: mutagen.m4a is deprecated; use mutagen.mp4 instead.
  "mutagen.m4a is deprecated; use mutagen.mp4 instead.", DeprecationWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/miro.real", line 183, in <module>
    from miro import startfrontend
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/startfrontend.py", line 52, in <module>
    from miro import startup
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/startup.py", line 53, in <module>
    from miro import controller
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/controller.py", line 50, in <module>
    from miro import conversions
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/conversions.py", line 1166, in <module>
    utils.setup_ffmpeg_presets()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/plat/utils.py", line 384, in setup_ffmpeg_presets
    stderr=file("/dev/null", "wb"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Suggestions?
Thanks,
Shimon

[shimonl]

No reaction on this one - so I will try to sharpen the query.
Do you think the problem is in miro itself, or is something wrong with my python?
I see that messages all mention python:
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mutagen
and
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/miro.real", line 183, in <module>
    from miro import startfrontend
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/miro/startfrontend.py", line 52, in <module>
and
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I know nothing about python, does anyone recognize these messages?

Thanks,
Shimon

[TerryN]

That error message means it cannot find the ffmpeg command.

Check to see that you (still) have ffmpeg installed and the command is in place:

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[terry@localhost ~]$ rpm -q ffmpeg
ffmpeg-0.7.12-2pclos2012
[terry@localhost ~]$ ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 0.7.12, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun 13 2012 15:43:23 with gcc 4.5.2
...

Terry

[Just17]

It installed and works fine here .....  it has been a long time since I looked at this app .....  it does appear to have improved quite a bit ......

EDIT:
           should have said I am using standard KDE and not FM

[cgiefer]

I have the same problem with Miro.  When I type miro on the command line, I get the same verbiage Shimon gets.  When I try out the commands suggested by Terry, I get the following:

[chad@localhost ~]$ rpm -q ffmpeg
ffmpeg-0.7.12-2pclos2012
[chad@localhost ~]$ ffmpeg -version
bash: ffmpeg: command not found
[chad@localhost ~]$

[TerryN]

That's weird.  The package is installed but there is no ffmpeg binary 

Have you tried re-installing ffmpeg ?

Terry.

[Just17]

Missing  path?

What is the output of


$PATH        in a terminal?

Try

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -version

[daniel]

or try locate ffmpeg to find, what is installed

[cgiefer]

I can't speak for Shimon, but reinstalling ffmpeg did the trick for me.  Miro now works as it should.  Thanks for the help guys!

[shimonl]

I also reinstalled ffmpeg, and now miro works.... ummm.. sort of.
The application definitely works, thank you for the good advice.
What does not work is getting miro to show youtube videos.

Here is an example:


Why should I get that message about Adobe Flash?

Thanks,
Shimon

[shimonl]

To clarify my last post:
I *am* able to watch youtube video in firefox. It does not complain about
flash not being available.

So, any idea why miro does complain? Is there a different flash I need?

Thanks,
Shimon