VLC playback of nflvid-watch script generated playlists is blank

[Labrador]

As shown in the screenshots on crunchbang, a debain flavor of linux, VLC doesn;t seem to like playing the video playlists generated with nflvid-watch.

All files can be viewed normally when selected via GUI and commandline in vlc.

Note, a potentially related issue occurs on Mac OS as well, but a 127 error is thrown.

All tests show that nfldb is working well, nflgame and the ability to download and split footage works as expected.

Great stuff!

[Labrador]

Didn't seem to want to upload the files, so here they are on dropbox...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2c6xwpmlnyr1cdz/Screen%20Shot%202013-09-12%20at%202.07.29%20PM.PNG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8iq8mt351br3r4/Screen%20Shot%202013-09-12%20at%202.07.05%20PM.PNG

This is trove, btw.

[BurntSushi]

Which version of vlc are you using? (Check the output of vlc --version.)

Also, after you run nflvid-watch but before you close vlc, could you check your /tmp directory for an xspf file? If it's there, copy it to another location, and then close vlc. Then try using vlc to open that file directly. And of course, please put that file in pastebin so I can take a look at it too. Thanks!

[Labrador]

VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
Nothing in /tmp.

[BurntSushi]

Can you try running nflvid-watch with the --verbose flag? It should pass vlc output through to your terminal. Let's see if there's anything useful in there...

[Labrador]

http:https://pastebin.com/nvNkiCeX

I lied... I was looking in ~/tmp

[BurntSushi]

And what happens when you try vlc whatever.xspf in a terminal?

[BurntSushi]

Thank you! Take your time :-)

[BurntSushi]

I seem to recall that @Labrador got this working. Feel free to add any relevant comments if you think they might be helpful, but otherwise I'm closing this as resolved.