Linux Placeshifter

[Jabroni]

Was wondering if the new linux release of placeshifter supported video playback.. or its just a miniclient GUI??? I got some crazy ideas if there was a way to playback videos on linux, would open a world of opportunities...

My first experiment is to load the placeshifter on a linux xbox distribution (currently testing xdsl)

*EDIT1*
After some digging I see it uses MPlayer to maybe playback the file. I tried running the bin file, to my luck i was missing some libs.

The first one i was missing was a libasound.so.4 (or something like that). I tried installing the mplayer package from XDSL.
Now its not missing that library, now its another

./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So now i tried doing a symlink to the new bin of Mplayer that comes with XDSL (just to see what would happend) the mplayer from /usr/bin would run without a prob, but the one from the miniclient wouldnt run.

[Jabroni]

So anyone has messed with placeshiffter + linux for video playing ??

[jroe]

I use it and it was pretty flawless - I had to chown the files to fix an issue with running but otherwise good - the main problems I see are that my speed is about 175kbps all the time which is pretty slow but it's probably my isp and I find that the menus during playblack flash on and right off again but nothing that is a showstopper.

I'm running Full Ubuntu 6.06 and I used automatix to config all my video setup which I think is why it went so smoothly. BTW, if your checking out linux os and haven't checked out 6.06 ubuntu check it out - after a few tweaks this thing beats xp in my opinion.

[Jabroni]

I use it and it was pretty flawless - I had to chown the files to fix an issue with running but otherwise good - the main problems I see are that my speed is about 175kbps all the time which is pretty slow but it's probably my isp and I find that the menus during playblack flash on and right off again but nothing that is a showstopper.

I'm running Full Ubuntu 6.06 and I used automatix to config all my video setup which I think is why it went so smoothly. BTW, if your checking out linux os and haven't checked out 6.06 ubuntu check it out - after a few tweaks this thing beats xp in my opinion.

Im trying to run the Placeshifter on a Xbox running linux.. the only distro I've tried so far is the DSL (damn small linux) which is ~50megs compressed. I could make it run the UI interface, but when It comes to playback I get a Playback exception. If people at sage could put a lil' more effort with this, it would be a nice plus for current members to have a maybe prebuilt linux image for xbox that has placeshifter (and maybe with IR support with the Xbox DVD remote contorl, not sure how linux interfaces it)

[jroe]

I suspect the thing to do here would be create an addon to one of the already exisiting Linux Hacked Dashboards out there - that way you get all of the benefits including the remote support without starting from scratch . . . not sure if any include java or mplayer already but from what I've gathered on them it wouldn't be too difficult to add them

[Jabroni]

Yeah I actually managed to install it, with JRE, the only problem is getting mplayer to work (the one embedded with the placeshiffter). Im not quite sure which libs I require in order to make it play the conent. If this works, it would open another world of oportunities (remote mvp via internet, for family,friends or if anyone has 2 houses :p). And with HDTV connectivity for better picture quality (which would just be noted on LAN connections where stream isnt transcoded to a lower bitrate)

[jroe]

Can you not install mplayer yourself? Then load the java files? From what I can gather there are several options for mplayer on the xbox

[Jabroni]

Tried that.. installed the mplayer package from DSL, i even tried deleting the mplayer executable from the Placeshifter dir, and made a symbolic link to the executable from DSL with no luck (i would guess they did some tweaks on the mplayer source code and recompiled a version for the placeshifter)

[keefmyster]

jroe I just set up an Ubuntu 6.06 box. Using Java 1.4.2_12 it seems to run nice except for the menu flashing (when a video is playing) like you were seeing. Did you ever find a way to fix that? I'm just happy it runs!

One other note, it crashes (before getting to play a video) within 5 seconds of loading with Java 1.5. The log says HotSpot detected a SIGSEGV. What version of java were you running with?

Thanks,
Chris

[Deadbolt]

jroe I just set up an Ubuntu 6.06 box. Using Java 1.4.2_12 it seems to run nice except for the menu flashing (when a video is playing) like you were seeing. Did you ever find a way to fix that? I'm just happy it runs!

One other note, it crashes (before getting to play a video) within 5 seconds of loading with Java 1.5. The log says HotSpot detected a SIGSEGV. What version of java were you running with?

Thanks,
Chris If we have a linux placeshifter does that put us any closer to a mac osX version?

[mayamaniac]

Im trying to run the Placeshifter on a Xbox running linux..
You might wanna contact roofus, he was supposedly working on an xbox client for sageTV. It seem like he abandoned the project (http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=17083) but might worth a shot to ask for his expertise or share thoughts.

If we have a linux placeshifter does that put us any closer to a mac osX version?
Rumor has it that SageTV is working on a Mac client, we might see it soon.

[Deadbolt]

You might wanna contact roofus, he was supposedly working on an xbox client for sageTV. It seem like he abandoned the project (http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=17083) but might worth a shot to ask for his expertise or share thoughts.


Rumor has it that SageTV is working on a Mac client, we might see it soon. Sweet...that would be soooo sweet. Where did you here this from?

[flavius]

Sweet...that would be soooo sweet. Where did you here this from?

Very sweet, indeed.

[mayamaniac]

Sweet...that would be soooo sweet. Where did you here this from?
Don't remember if I've seen it mentioned on this forum, but it was mentioned on engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/sagetv-bringing-place-shifting-to-linux/). Definitely not concrete info as there is no source, so its stay as rumors for now.

[xred]

You might wanna contact roofus, he was supposedly working on an xbox client for sageTV. It seem like he abandoned the project (http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=17083) but might worth a shot to ask for his expertise or share thoughts.


Rumor has it that SageTV is working on a Mac client, we might see it soon.

Now that the Mac version of Sage is out in Beta, has anyone taken a second stab at this? Running Placeshifter on the xbox is a great solution gievn how cheap the original xbox is these days.

[dwalton22]

I have a couple of hacked xboxes at home...I'm curious if anyone ever got this to work?