SageTV 9 with HD300 can't read the duration of MKV files in Linux

[rbolande]

I installed SageTV OSS on Linux 64-bit and got the server running. I successfully connected an HD300 media extender to the server (the server is currently running on a VM) and I could play MKV files, but the duration of the files aren't being read and I can FF or rewind since it thinks both the beginning and the end of the video are 00:00. The Video Info screen shows no duration info for the files I have tried.

I took the same MKV files and put them on my Windows SageTV server (which has Sage 7.1 with the OSS .exe files on it) and when I point my HD300 to the Windows server, the video duration is read properly and shows in the Video Info Screen. I can also FF and RW on my HD300 pointed to the Windows SageTV server.

What should I look at on the Linux side to try to get to the bottom of this?

Thanks,
REID

[stuckless]

I'm Jeff will ask... but could you enable debug logging and then post the sagetv_0.txt log file? I run linux, but I'm still on the 32bit version for now (using the updated Sage.jar though).

[Narflex]

My first guess is that it did the import scan while the file was still being copied....but if its for multiple files, that's not likely to be the problem. You can force a 'reindex' in Settings->Advanced and that'll redo the detection, and if that was the problem, it'll fix it.

Beyond that; the logs are the most useful thing. Also, set this in the Sage.properties before you generate the logs so we'll have all the info that it got back from FFMPEG:

debug_ffmpeg_format_info=TRUE

[rbolande]

Jeff,

You may be on to something. With things in debug logging mode I get the following error:

Mon 10/5 15:49:57.519 [ThumbnailGen@1ef86f46] MediaFile creating thumbnail to /opt/sagetv/server/GeneratedThumbnails/varmediavideos<filename>mkv.jpg for MediaFile[id=5 A[9,6,"<filename>",0@1005.05:51,0,V] mask=V host=ubuntu1 encodedBy= format=MATROSKA 0:00:00 0 kbps [] /var/media/videos/<filename>.mkv, Seg0[Mon 10/5 5:51:22.999-Mon 10/5 5:51:23.000]]

Mon 10/5 15:49:58.131 [ThumbnailGen@1ef86f46] Error creating thumbnail from video file:MediaFile[id=5 A[9,6,"<filename>",0@1005.05:51,0,V] mask=V host=ubuntu1 encodedBy= format=MATROSKA 0:00:00 0 kbps [] /var/media/videos/<filename>.mkv, Seg0[Mon 10/5 5:51:22.999-Mon 10/5 5:51:23.000]] res=/opt/sagetv/server/ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libfaad.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I appear to be missing something (maybe a symlink?) to the libfaad library. Here is what my Linux server has:

/home/reid/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so.2
/home/reid/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so
/home/reid/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so.2.0.0

So it looks like I may have the lib, it just can't be found...but some of this is all new to me.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
REID

[rbolande]

By placing the server in debug mode I found that the library libfaad.so.2 could not be found by ffmpeg, so I copied the 3 files:

/home/<user>/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so.2
/home/<user>/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so
/home/<user>/sagetv/third_party/codecs/faad2/libfaad/.libs/libfaad.so.2.0.0

to /usr/lib

Now ffmpeg doesn't complain about missing that lib in the log, and further down in the log I even see the duration, but SageTV still shows it as 00:00 duration when I play the file and no duration is shown when I view the file info. Here is some more info from the log:

Input #0, matroska, from '/var/media/videos/<filename>.mkv':
Duration: 00:42:32.5, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x718, AR: 640:359, progressive, 23.98 fps(r)
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1
Stream #0.2: Subtitle: 0x0000
/opt/sagetv/server/ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-vf'

Any other ideas?

Thanks!
REID

[stuckless]

I wonder if installing the library using the package manager would have been better.

# sudo apt-get install libfaad2

And/or, I wonder if libfaad2-dev needed to be installed during the make of ffmpeg

[rbolande]

When I try to install libfaad2-dev I get the following message. Is libfaad-dev the correct package to try since libfaad2-dev doesn't seem to exist?

$ sudo apt-get install libfaad2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libfaad2-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libfaad-dev:i386 libfaad-dev

E: Package 'libfaad2-dev' has no installation candidate

[stuckless]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libfaad-dev

looks like there is no 2, just libfaad-dev

[Narflex]

The one error you show above where you're actually pasting the FFMPEG output is from when it's failing to generate a thumbnail. I need to see the part of the log from when it does the format detection...that'll look like:

File: <filename> len=<length> FFMPEG Info:<FFMPEG Output>

Then from looking at that and the couple of lines before/after it in the SageTV log I can determine what's going on.

[rbolande]

Thanks for all your help. I got it working by only doing the following:

1) Installed the libfaad-dev library (sudo apt-get install libfaad-dev)
2) Installed the libfaad2 library (sudo apt-get install libfaad2)

After this I set the environment variables:
JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/
JAVA_ARCH=amd64

And then I did another buildall.sh

After installing the .deb for the server after the build, it all seems to be working properly.

Thanks for your help!

REID

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by rbolande

Thanks for all your help. I got it working by only doing the following:
...
JAVA_ARCH=amd64
...

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought you could not build Sage as a 64 bit application?

[Narflex]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought you could not build Sage as a 64 bit application?

You can! It was resolved on Linux about a month ago.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Narflex

You can! It was resolved on Linux about a month ago.

Guess I should have continued to follow that thread

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by Narflex

You can! It was resolved on Linux about a month ago.

So if we build it under 64 bit Linux do we get more memory to connect more extenders....ie: get past the 1024 limit in the 32 bit version or is there more to do to resolve that?


k

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

So if we build it under 64 bit Linux do we get more memory to connect more extenders....ie: get past the 1024 limit in the 32 bit version or is there more to do to resolve that?


k

64 bit builds are available, and yes, they will get past the 32bit memory limits, but I think people are still working on the various 64 bit driver issues etc. I still don't run the 64bit version myself, but I probobly could... i just haven't got around to actually setting it up on my main server. I run the 64bit version locally for testing though.

The download area is
https://bintray.com/opensagetv/sagetv/SageTV/view

I probably should create a new build this weekend, since I think there have a few changes pushed since this build.

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I probably should create a new build this weekend, since I think there have a few changes pushed since this build.

I think Opus has iterated the main repo to 9.0.0.5 from 9.0.0.0 since you built "9.0.0.4"

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Monedeath

I think Opus has iterated the main repo to 9.0.0.5 from 9.0.0.0 since you built "9.0.0.4"

He's at least done so in the STV's reported version.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

He's at least done so in the STV's reported version.

Right -- if you look on the System Info screen, there is a "Software Version", which is the SageTV core version, and then the "Current STV File" info. The incrementing version numbers I've been adding are referring to the STV version for some minor changes.

So far, the only core tweaks I've been involved with are trying to get IR to use Don't Like more effectively, so it stops recording Hopalong Cassidy shows every time they come on, for example.

... and since this if off topic for this thread, if anyone has any interest in the STV or IR tweaks, please post to a new topic.

Andy

[Narflex]

I also just incremented the actual SageTV core version to 9.0.1 since I made some changes recently that affected how it functions.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Narflex

I also just incremented the actual SageTV core version to 9.0.1 since I made some changes recently that affected how it functions.

SO... If I create a new build, it would likely be 9.0.1.0. Should I commit the build number update back into your sources? (ie pull request to github).

EDIT: So, SageContstants has the build number, why isn't that in the Version.java long with the other build version parts?