Linux Placeshifter blank screen

[SHS]

Placeshifter (sagetv-client_9.2.1_amd64)
Very odd all get is a blank screen in LiveTV or and Video but Windows one work very odd
Any one else run into this ?.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by SHS

Placeshifter (sagetv-client_9.2.1_amd64)
Very odd all get is a blank screen in LiveTV or and Video but Windows one work very odd
Any one else run into this ?.

Enable (or disable) the 3D acceleration in the Setting menu.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Enable (or disable) the 3D acceleration in the Setting menu.

I all ready try those option
With it Enable it just dose nothing as in never start
With it Disable I do get the main menu but soon I try play any video is just a blank screen never start
I even try disable/enable video post processing
Any other idea stuckless ?.

[stuckless]

I don't use my placeshifter very often, but I just tried now, and it works. That is all that i can recall in terms of getting it to work.

[SHS]

If any one run Ubuntu 18.04.3 I love to here from all

[Galaxysurfer]

I can get livetv playback when i run Kaffeine, which has a customized version of VLC code. Not sure what is different about it to native sage player. Maybe it is the codecs? I am not running ubuntu so can't comment on any differences there to my linux distro as it refers to video playback.

[stuckless]

I haven't upgraded in a bit, so I did that, and I see the problem.

The problem is that Ubuntu no longer supplies the libpng12-0 library. (I ran the mplayer supplied with sageclient from the command line and noticed that it complained)

You can fix this by running the following 2 commands from a a command shell in your home directory.

64 bit systems

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb

On linux the placeshifter is basically fires up an mplayer instance and then renders that in your window. So, you can run that mplayer instance directly (/opt/sagetv/client/mplayer) and see if it works on it's own.

NOTE: This assumes the 64bit system. If you are running a 32bit system, you'll need the 32bit versions. (now that I think about, I think the sagetv placeshifter is ONLY 64bit)
32 bit systems

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb

[Galaxysurfer]

i installed the mentioned files in my linux distro but it didn't do anything for Placeshifter live playback. I have no live playback issues with kaffeine which is using libVLC. How is that different than what mplayer uses? I have a Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 card running 340.107 driver.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Galaxysurfer

i installed the mentioned files in my linux distro but it didn't do anything for Placeshifter live playback. I have no live playback issues with kaffeine which is using libVLC. How is that different than what mplayer uses? I have a Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 card running 340.107 driver.

have you tried just running mplayer from the /opt/sagetv/client directory and see if it still complains? You should be able to run it and pass a file to see if works.

The video card really won't matter much here, since it's likely not using any hardware decoding and all decoding is done in software.

[Galaxysurfer]

mplayer doesn't run. not sure if it is a permission issue or something else. I am running Mx Linux, which is debian based.

[SHS]

That give me audio but not video I can see mplayer in task process is there any else that need stuckless

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Galaxysurfer

mplayer doesn't run. not sure if it is a permission issue or something else. I am running Mx Linux, which is debian based.

to run it, you would have to

cd /opt/sagetv/client
./mplayer SOMEFILE

the ./ is important or it won't find the file. In linux the current directory is not in the path, so, running a file requires that you tell it where it's located, in this case ./mplayer means mplayer in the current directory.

Originally Posted by SHS

That give me audio but not video I can see mplayer in task process is there any else that need stuckless

Typically audio with no video.. I would check/uncheck that 3D flag in the settings, and see if that makes are difference.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Typically audio with no video.. I would check/uncheck that 3D flag in the settings, and see if that makes are difference.

I know that
With it Enable it just dose nothing as in it never start must be crashing
With it Disable soon I play anything there audio just no video