sage.PlaybackException

[slamduncan]

Hardware is VIA Epia ME60000 256MB RAM 30GB disk, Hauppauge PVR150.

I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Linux.

SageTV Linux OEM 6.1 with Placeshifter client all installed on same machine.

Everything seems to work except 5 seconds or so into video playback I get a sage.PlaybackException.

The logfile extract is below. There's a socket time out shortly before the playback exception. Normally I'd suspect a network problem but it's all running on the same machine so hard to believe.

Has anyone else seen this?

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.556 at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.557 at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.557 at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:182)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.557 at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:353)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.557 at sage.b1.if(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.558 at sage.b1.load(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.558 at sage.VideoFrame.a(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.558 at sage.VideoFrame.a(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.558 at sage.VideoFrame.run(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.558 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
sage.PlaybackException
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.561 at sage.b1.load(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.561 at sage.VideoFrame.a(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.562 at sage.VideoFrame.a(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.562 at sage.VideoFrame.run(Unknown Source)
Sun 4/8 19:57:41.562 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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Could you try running the placeshifter from another computer to see if that's the problem.

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[slamduncan]

Well your suggestion was fruitful Demo so thank you! It probably wasn't for the reason that you might expect that it helped though.

What I found by running the client on another machine was that the logging information was going to the stdout rather than into the miniclient.log file. I wasn't seeing stdout on the first machine because I'd already configured the process to start at boot and I was expecting the sageclient.sh file to capture all outputs in the logfile. For whatever reason though, on Ubuntu, sageclient.sh doesn't send everything to the logfile.

The work-around I used for this was to run sageclient.sh using the following line so that the logfile is used correctly:

/opt/sagetv/client/sageclient.sh 2>&1 >>/opt/sagetv/client/miniclient.log

Once I could see the logging information debugging became a whole lot easier

The cause of the playback exception in my case was that "java-package" hadn't been installed. The reason is noted in another thread but my installation script had had "java-packages", with an s on the end which I hadn't noticed had failed.

The other valuable lesson for me in this process was that the ldd command can be used against libSage.so, libjtux.so and mplayer in the miniclient directory to check dependencies are satisfied.