No Live video in Gentoo Linux

[ASegredo]

I installed the latest V9 on two Gentoo Linux computers following https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63946

The installations went well and I could use Placeshifter to access Windows v9 servers as well as record with the two new Linux v9 servers. However I can't view live video on either although I can record and play back with the native Gentoo mplayer but not the bundled mplayer.

Looking for support here with this binary install outside of portage.
One computer uses a Hauppauge Quad and the other uses an HVR-1600.
Both record and playback with my native mplayer but will not live play. there is no error message just a black screen with no audio until I kill playback.

EDIT: I've enabled debug logging but I don't know where the log is. It's not in /var/log

[ASegredo]

I believe mplayer is respawning:

tony@MSI ~ $ ps a|grep mplayer
5207 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mplayer
tony@MSI ~ $ ps a|grep mplayer
5209 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mplayer
tony@MSI ~ $ ps a|grep mplayer
5211 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mplayer
tony@MSI ~ $ ps a|grep mplayer
5213 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mplayer

[ASegredo]

Respawning seems due to missing library:

$ ./mplayer --help
./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So where to pick up that library? And what version of mplayer is SageTV using? Maybe I can use the native mplayer?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by ASegredo

Respawning seems due to missing library:

$ ./mplayer --help
./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So where to pick up that library? And what version of mplayer is SageTV using? Maybe I can use the native mplayer?

The notion of upgrading mplayer has certainly come up many times. The problem is that sagetv is using a custom version of mplayer (ie, sagetv has added its own modifications to the mplayer code). It's not an easy process, and not sure anyone is up to doing it

I suspect you are missing libasla or libpulse. Maybe install those and see if changes things.

[ASegredo]

Thank you, Stuckless. I was hoping you would lend a hand.
I don't run pulseaudio, is it a requirement?
I am pursuing how to get libaudio.so on the gentoo forum. I can't find a package named libalsa but it sounds encouraging.

I do know that mplayer has a checkered past of interface changes and incompatible versions. I know zero about java but used to be a pretty good C/C++ programmer. Could you point me to the source of Sage's mplayer so that I can compare them to the Gentoo source and maybe see what's different?

I know Gentoo is a niche distro but I'd like to see SageTV expand past Ubuntu and RedHat, maybe into FreeBsd.

[wnjj]

Originally Posted by ASegredo

Thank you, Stuckless. I was hoping you would lend a hand.
I don't run pulseaudio, is it a requirement?
I am pursuing how to get libaudio.so on the gentoo forum. I can't find a package named libalsa but it sounds encouraging.

I do know that mplayer has a checkered past of interface changes and incompatible versions. I know zero about java but used to be a pretty good C/C++ programmer. Could you point me to the source of Sage's mplayer so that I can compare them to the Gentoo source and maybe see what's different?

I know Gentoo is a niche distro but I'd like to see SageTV expand past Ubuntu and RedHat, maybe into FreeBsd.

https://github.com/google/sagetv/tre..._party/mplayer

[ASegredo]

Thank you, wnjj!

[ASegredo]

The gentoo package is named "nas" which has libraries for accessing Network Attached Storage. I installed that and the error goes away.

After starting the sageserver service and starting the sage client:
tony@MSI server $ ps -e |grep -v \?
PID TTY TIME CMD
2777 tty7 00:00:12 X
2819 tty1 00:00:00 agetty
2820 tty2 00:00:00 agetty
2821 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
2822 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
2823 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
2824 tty6 00:00:00 agetty
3146 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
4337 pts/0 00:00:00 startsagecore
4360 pts/0 00:00:39 java
4444 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
4445 pts/0 00:00:00 sh
4450 pts/0 00:00:20 java
5046 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
5047 pts/0 00:00:00 grep
I think that second java is the client
After stopping the client:
tony@MSI server $ ps -e |grep -v \?
PID TTY TIME CMD
2777 tty7 00:00:12 X
2819 tty1 00:00:00 agetty
2820 tty2 00:00:00 agetty
2821 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
2822 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
2823 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
2824 tty6 00:00:00 agetty
3146 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
4337 pts/0 00:00:00 startsagecore
4360 pts/0 00:00:39 java
5056 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
5057 pts/0 00:00:00 grep

I still have no live TV but mplayer has to be good because when I start mplayer from the client directory with ./mplayer <video file> with a video file recorded by SageTV from this software it plays beautifully.

[ASegredo]

Tried to run the client with gdb as I found somewhere from google. It has a segfault. Don't know where to go from here. I'm running oracle java 1.8
On my XP box, I'm running 1.6
I tried running 1.8 on XP and Sage crashed. Maybe I should try to find 1.6 for Linux?

[stuckless]

I run the sagetvclient package on my linux (Ubuntu 18.04) with java 8 and 9, and I haven't noticed any issues.

[ASegredo]

I found the miniclient.log

Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(size_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ssize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ino_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nlink_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(blksize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nfds_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msgqnum_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msglen_t)
Type size error: sizeof(int) < sizeof(ino_t)
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no Sage in java.library.path
Wed 8/29 19:48:21.551 stderr:./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Wed 8/29 19:48:51.317 Connection error 0, exiting
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.063 GFX channel detected a connection error and we're in a mode that allows reconnect...try to reconnect to the server now
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.068 Error w/ Media Thread: java.io.EOFException
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.069 Error with reply from server:0
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.570 Error w/ event thread: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.571 Event channel error occurred...closing other sockets to force reconnect...
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.571 Error w/ event thread: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
Wed 8/29 19:49:42.572 Event channel error occurred...closing other sockets to force reconnect...
Wed 8/29 19:49:45.560 Error w/ GFX Thread: java.io.EOFException
Wed 8/29 19:49:45.577 Connection error 0, exiting
Wed 8/29 19:49:45.613 Error w/ Media Thread: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
Wed 8/29 19:50:07.485 stderr:./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Wed 8/29 19:54:20.256 Connection error 0, exiting
Wed 8/29 19:56:17.178 Error w/ Media Thread: java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
Wed 8/29 19:56:17.185 Connection error 0, exiting

The libtinfo.so problem is caused by it being optional on Gentoo. I needed to rebuild ncurses with the tinfo use flag.

I don't understand why the type size errors. My Gentoo Linux is multilib.

EDIT:
One big problem was that I hadn't set the user vm, only the system vm. It's running smoother now but still no video.
Current error messages are:

Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(size_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ssize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ino_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nlink_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(blksize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nfds_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msgqnum_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msglen_t)
Type size error: sizeof(int) < sizeof(ino_t)
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no Sage in java.library.path
Thu 8/30 9:09:46.766 stderr:./mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Thu 8/30 9:22:32.107 Connection error 0, exiting

I had to downgrade ncurses from version 6 to version 5. My libjpeg.so is libjpeg.so.62 so I don't know where I'm going to find so.8 but I'll search.
Perhaps I have it on my Ubuntu partition.

Stuckless, I could really use help with the java errors. What do they indicate to you? I'm using oracle java 1.8

[ASegredo]

SUCCESS!
I had to install these packages:

media-libs/nas
ncurses-5 with tinfo support
media-libs/libpng:1.2
media-libs/jpeg:8

There still are error messages in the log but it records shows and will play live TV using Hauppauge HVR-1600

The mplayer screen doesn't have a maximum button. Is that normal for SageTV 9 on Linux?

The remaining errors are:

tmp $ grep -i error *.log
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(size_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ssize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(ino_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nlink_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(blksize_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(nfds_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msgqnum_t)
Type size error: sizeof(jint) < sizeof(msglen_t)
Type size error: sizeof(int) < sizeof(ino_t)
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no Sage in java.library.path
Thu 8/30 12:04:15.908 stderr:a52: error at resampling
Thu 8/30 12:04:15.918 stdout:[mpegvideo @ 0xe3a060]concealing 1260 DC, 1260 AC, 1260 MV errors
Thu 8/30 12:04:37.767 Connection error 0, exiting

The full log is here: http://dpaste.com/2QVG0Q3