SageTV V4.1.8 Beta Is Available - Placeshifting! (improved streaming)

[banmj]

I installed 4.1.8 last night on my server. When I try to use PlaceShifter over the internet at work, it goes into the Please Wait screen and just sits there. PlaceShifter works fine over the lan.
I tried to test placeshifter on a pc on the lan using the internet ip address and the sage screen comes up and dissapears suddenly.

[ben_gb]

On a DVB-T system, I'm still getting no sound on some channel changes. Should I use the 'qian' downloads or are this incorportated into 4.18?

Regards,
Ben

[mikejaner]

You ought to check out Cygwin's SSH Server. Run the SSH server over whatever port, then tunnel apps through it.

I have that, and can to that, but I don't want to add any more overhead to a video stream than I have to.

[that_kid]

Ok streaming has definately improved for me. Before I had to set the speed otherwise the client would be all over the place. Now it adjusts acordingly and so far everything is working very well. I'm at work connecting back to my network via vpn, that way I don't have to open any ports on my firewall.

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

Well, first glance at 4.1.8 looks good. placeshifrting works for Java 1.4 but I'm having problems with imports of .mpg files. Sageservice goes to max CPU trying to scan an .mpg file. The same files have been acceptable to Sage from V2 all the way up to 4.1.7.

Rolled back to 4.1.7 and it works just fine. Upgrade to 4.1.8, even DL'ed a new copy, and it'll hang. check the logs and it stopped scanning on an .mpg file. SO, I'm back to 4.1.7 for now.

Can you please enable debug logging with debug_logging=TRUE and then send your sagetv_0.txt log file for 4.1.8 to betatest at sagetv.com

Thanks.

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by banmj

I installed 4.1.8 last night on my server. When I try to use PlaceShifter over the internet at work, it goes into the Please Wait screen and just sits there. PlaceShifter works fine over the lan.
I tried to test placeshifter on a pc on the lan using the internet ip address and the sage screen comes up and dissapears suddenly.

Did you upgrade your Placeshifter clients too? It sounds like you're using the old client with the new server and one of them is running Java 1.4. (which works fine in the latest version)

[Narflex]

Music playback doesn't work yet in the Placeshifter. This'll be fixed for the next build. We'll also make the ports configurable.

[thatdude90210]

Dynamic streaming is definitely improved, doesn't seem to be stuttering like before. But a couple of issues (using 4.1.8 & the 2/23 dated placeshifter client), I've gotten these on two different computers:

1. Using latest java 1.5.0.6, I have trouble with using locator ID. On the server list, it says "locator failed to find server," and if I try to connect, the I/O error message is "error looking up address of:Java.net.ConnectException: connection refused: connect"

I double checked the locator ID and it's correct. I have a dyndns address so I could connect using that with no problem.

2. If I quit the app while a video is playing, the last played sound will loop until I kill the process of mplayer. One time I had to reboot the computer to get it to stop. Obviously, for now, I just have to make sure to stop the video before quiting.

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by thatdude90210

1. Using latest java 1.5.0.6, I have trouble with using locator ID. On the server list, it says "locator failed to find server," and if I try to connect, the I/O error message is "error looking up address of:Java.net.ConnectException: connection refused: connect"

I double checked the locator ID and it's correct. I have a dyndns address so I could connect using that with no problem.

I have the same issue using java 1.4.2_10. I see the "locator failed to find server" message. But, I can connect using my dyndns address with no problem.

Also, I can connect from work over the internet with no trouble, but my wife, using the 4.1.8 client, gets the following error in the Placeshifter log (when starting placeshifter from a command prompt):

Fri 2/24 11:53:15.171 Starting SageTVPlaceshifter Client
Fri 2/24 11:53:15.171 Starting main loop
Fri 2/24 11:53:19.156 Connection accepted by server
Fri 2/24 11:53:19.156 Connected to media server
Fri 2/24 11:53:19.359 Connection accepted by server
Fri 2/24 11:53:19.359 Connected to gfx server
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.687 GetProperty: GFX_TEXTMODE
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.734 GetProperty: GFX_BLENDMODE
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.765 GetProperty: GFX_DRAWMODE
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.781 GetProperty: GFX_BITMAP_FORMAT
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.812 GetProperty: GFX_SUPPORTED_ASPECTS
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.828 GetProperty: GFX_ASPECT
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.875 GetProperty: GFX_SUPPORTED_RESOLUTIONS
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.890 GetProperty: GFX_RESOLUTION
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.921 GetProperty: GFX_COMPOSITE
Fri 2/24 11:53:20.937 GetProperty: GFX_COLORKEY
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.015 GetProperty: INPUT_DEVICES
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.046 GetProperty: DISPLAY_OVERSCAN
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.078 GetProperty: VIDEO_CODECS
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.093 GetProperty: AUDIO_CODECS
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.125 GetProperty: PULL_AV_CONTAINERS
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.140 GetProperty: PUSH_AV_CONTAINERS
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.171 GetProperty: FIXED_PUSH_MEDIA_FORMAT
Fri 2/24 11:53:21.187 GetProperty: CRYPTO_ALGORITHMS
Fri 2/24 11:53:22.046 SetProperty CRYPTO_PUBLIC_KEY
Fri 2/24 11:53:22.125 GetProperty: CRYPTO_SYMMETRIC_KEY
Fri 2/24 11:53:23.156 Error w/ GFX Thread: java.io.EOFException
java.io.EOFException
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.GFXThread(MiniClientConnection.j
ava:224)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.access$100(MiniClientConnection.
java:6)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection$4.run(MiniClientConnection.java:
180)
Fri 2/24 11:53:23.187 Error w/ Media Thread: java.net.SocketException: socket cl
osed
java.net.SocketException: socket closed
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.MediaThread(MiniClientConnection
java:678)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.access$000(MiniClientConnection.
java:6)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection$3.run(MiniClientConnection.java:
171)
Exception in thread "Media-kuder.dyndns.org" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sage.miniclient.MediaCmd.close(MediaCmd.java:92)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.MediaThread(MiniClientConnection
java:713)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection.access$000(MiniClientConnection.
java:6)
        at sage.miniclient.MiniClientConnection$3.run(MiniClientConnection.java:
171)
Fri 2/24 11:53:23.281 Connection error 0, exiting

[banmj]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Did you upgrade your Placeshifter clients too? It sounds like you're using the old client with the new server and one of them is running Java 1.4. (which works fine in the latest version)

That was it.
Thanks

[mikejaner]

We'll also make the ports configurable.

Sweet!!!

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Can you please enable debug logging with debug_logging=TRUE and then send your sagetv_0.txt log file for 4.1.8 to betatest at sagetv.com

Thanks.

Logs sent. I made sure that I saved some logs while I was messing around with 4.1.8.

[Narflex]

spacecadet,

Can you post the server logs (or send them to betatest at sagetv.com) that correspond to the Placeshifter client failure? The error is occuring on the server side.

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by Narflex

spacecadet,

Can you post the server logs (or send them to betatest at sagetv.com) that correspond to the Placeshifter client failure? The error is occuring on the server side.

No problem. I will send them to the betatest address later today.

Thanks.

[MTuckman]

Originally Posted by Narflex

We'll also make the ports configurable.

I can't wait!!!

[spacecadet]

Originally Posted by spacecadet

No problem. I will send them to the betatest address later today.

Thanks.

Logs have been sent. It looks like the problem is related to the java version. Here is the error I am seeing in the Sage log:

Fri 2/24 13:58:28.193 Error w/ MiniUI socket of:java.io.IOException: Error establishing secure MiniClient link:java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Cannot find any provider supporting RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding
Fri 2/24 13:58:28.195 Exception in the MiniUIClientReceiver of: java.net.SocketException: socket closed

The Sage TV Server is running 1.4.2_09
At work, I am running 1.4.2_10 and I can connect with no problem.
My wife is running 1.5.0_04 and she gets the error indicated above.

[Bohica]

Originally Posted by Narflex

Music playback doesn't work yet in the Placeshifter. This'll be fixed for the next build. We'll also make the ports configurable.

Thanks! Great job on this so far! Out of curiosity - why can't imported videos that are in VOB format play through the place shifter? Is this a copyright or technical issue?

[jlabrue]

Just wanted to say this is AWESOME! PlaceShifting is too cool.

On this release, I am still having some performance issues on the PS client when using Dynamic. It is much better but still a lot of stuttering for me. If I manually set it to 270 it works almost flawlessly without stutter.

[KJake]

Wow, PlaceShifting is really improved. I'm running this through SSH right now and there is no stuttering in this release. I can't wait until I can change the port and try and run this through our evil firewall at work. Otherwise, an HTTP proxy config would be the next best thing.

[donkey]

Some HD tuner crash or stuttering is probably related to a MSFT’s bug, please check
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896626.

1:26:44 bug is still alive in client end, it’ll be killed soon.
Qian