Nothing happens after starting server

[giansegato]

I’m quite sure this is something trivial, but I can’t get out of it.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3+ with a fresh Raspberry Pi OS Lite installed. If I plug an HDMI cable to the Pi, the CLI fires up on screen, as Lite doesn’t have any GUI. So far so good.

I successfully installed RPiPlay following the README instructions. I have it running via an ssh connection, in a tmux pane to avoid the command to stop after I drop the connection. The command is rpiplay -n “TV” -a hdmi. Everything runs smoothly, and I start seeing the server on both my iPad and iPhone.

If I select it as an AirPlay target to stream anything (be a video or screen mirroring), nothing happens on the monitor to which the Pi is connected (via HDMI). I just keep seeing the CLI. I saw in other issues that Lite is a supported OS, so I cannot understand what I’m missing.

I also tried to plug a keyboard directly to the board and run the command from there, but - still - nothing happens: only debug logs and the CLI itself.

What am I missing?

[abdullahaltun70]

Same issue here. I have the excact same problem. This is the output I am getting as I'm sure you're getting as well:

pi@raspberrypi2:~/RPiPlay/build $ ./rpiplay -n Monitor -a hdmi Initialized server socket(s) WARNING The program 'rpiplay' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi. WARNING Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi! WARNING For more information see http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahi-compat.html Accepted IPv4 client on socket 14 Local: 192.168.2.34 Remote: 192.168.2.3 Accepted IPv4 client on socket 16 Local: 192.168.2.34 Remote: 192.168.2.3 raop_rtp_mirror starting mirroring

[FD-]

Are you using Bullseye?

[abdullahaltun70]

Are you using Bullseye?

Yes I am. I did a fresh install of rp os lite this morning. and ofcource apt update and upgrade . Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

[FD-]

Please try the newest Buster image instead and let us know whether you see the same issues.

[brechtknecht]

I have exactly the same result and messages on a clean Ubuntu 21.10 ubuntu tty1 like @abdullahaltun70.

[FD-]

That suggests gstreamer is not properly configured on your system.

[abdullahaltun70]

How can I fix gstreamer not working?

[FD-]

My suggestion would be reading through other similar issues that were eventually resolved. Gstreamer support was written by other contributors, so maybe they can help better here.

[abdullahaltun70]

I installed the Buster image and gstreamer (again). I followed a few threads that where suggesting I should install all of the dependencies again which are shown in the README and additional installs:

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-doc gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

None of these seems to be working. Any other ideas maybe?

[arnlen]

Same here. To move forward, my output of the rpiplay -h command clearly shows that the dummy renderer is the only one available, which mean that - indeed - gstreamer isn't available:

RPiPlay 1.2: An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for Raspberry Pi
Usage: rpiplay [-n name] [-b (on|auto|off)] [-r (90|180|270)] [-l] [-a (hdmi|analog|off)] [-vr renderer] [-ar renderer]
Options:

[...]

-vr renderer          Set video renderer to use. Available renderers:
    dummy: Dummy renderer; does not actually display video [Default]
-ar renderer          Set audio renderer to use. Available renderers:
    dummy: Dummy renderer; does not actually play audio [Default]

❓ Where does RPiPlay look to find gstreamer? An env variable to set maybe?

[FD-]

Please post the cmake output.

[meaurieati]

I've got the same issue. cmake outputs the following: cmake .. -- OpenMAX libraries not found, skipping compilation of Raspberry Pi renderer -- Checking for modules 'gstreamer-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-sdp-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-video-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-app-1.0>=1.4' -- Found gstreamer-1.0, version 1.18.4 -- Found gstreamer-sdp-1.0, version 1.18.4 -- Found gstreamer-video-1.0, version 1.18.4 -- Found gstreamer-app-1.0, version 1.18.4 -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/RPiPlay/build

and make -j this: make -j Scanning dependencies of target renderers [ 11%] Built target llhttp [ 28%] Built target playfair [ 34%] Building C object renderers/CMakeFiles/renderers.dir/video_renderer_dummy.c.o [ 34%] Building C object renderers/CMakeFiles/renderers.dir/audio_renderer_dummy.c.o [ 37%] Building C object renderers/CMakeFiles/renderers.dir/video_renderer_gstreamer.c.o [ 40%] Building C object renderers/CMakeFiles/renderers.dir/audio_renderer_gstreamer.c.o [ 91%] Built target airplay /home/pi/RPiPlay/renderers/video_renderer_gstreamer.c:33:17: warning: ‘check_plugins’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] 33 | static gboolean check_plugins(void) | ^~~~~ /home/pi/RPiPlay/renderers/audio_renderer_gstreamer.c:34:17: warning: ‘check_plugins’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] 34 | static gboolean check_plugins(void) | ^~~~~ [ 94%] Linking C static library librenderers.a [ 94%] Built target renderers [ 97%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/rpiplay.dir/rpiplay.cpp.o [100%] Linking CXX executable rpiplay [100%] Built target rpiplay

[8bignic8]

Same Problem on Rpi Bullseye and Ubuntu Server 21.10, please help :). And thanks btw. for the nice Program :)

[8bignic8]

ok maybe stupid but when I start it with sudo I get: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.

does this help?

[arnlen]

☝️ One remarque after reading the cmake output: I notice that there are gstreamer modules checks at the beginning of the compilation. Since I didn't have gstreamer installed yet when I compiled rpiPlay yesterday, I will try another cmake now that it is installed. I keep you posted.

[giansegato]

Update. I installed GStreamer (my bad, I didn't realize it was a needed requirement). It definitely works, but streaming doesn't work yet. What I did:

1. Installed GStreamer

sudo apt-get install libx264-dev libjpeg-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-dev      libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev      libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev      gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly      gstreamer1.0-tools      gstreamer1.0-gl      gstreamer1.0-gtk3 --fix-missing -y

2. Tested it

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! autovideosink

I successfully saw a test stream on the target screen!

3. Re-compile RPiPlay

cmake --DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O3" --DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-O3" ..
make -j

Results:

-- OpenMAX libraries not found, skipping compilation of Raspberry Pi renderer
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/RPiPlay/build
[ 28%] Built target llhttp
[ 28%] Built target playfair
[ 42%] Built target renderers
[ 94%] Built target airplay
[100%] Built target rpiplay

4. Launch it

rpiplay -n "TV" -a hdmi

Unfortunately, it still doesn't show anything, even if GStreamer does indeed work.

[davidb0]

I had the same issue after updating my Pi Zero W to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye yesterday (fully sudo apt upgraded). I reinstalled Buster (the previous version) and it works now.

The issues I had was: the "cmake .." was way too fast and the renders RPI (Omax) and Gstreamer didn't work and didn't get compiled. the iPhone connected to it, but nothing happened on screen, no sound no audio. when I tried installing Gstreamer on Bullseye, it didn't work (maybe I'm a noob, but whatever).

[FD-]

So this sounds like it is somewhat related to #294

[giansegato]

If it can help, I downloaded Raspian Buster Lite (2020), and followed the entire procedure again. It worked!

[abdullahaltun70]

If it can help, I downloaded Raspian Buster Lite (2020), and followed the entire procedure again. It worked!

where did you download buster lite en what steps did you exactly follow? I would really like to try according to your taken steps.

[8bignic8]

If it can help, I downloaded Raspian Buster Lite (2020), and followed the entire procedure again. It worked!

where did you download buster lite en what steps did you exactly follow? I would really like to try according to your taken steps.

Yes me 2 :)

[abdullahaltun70]

I have installed Buster Lite. installed everything that was needed. Up untill the "make -j" command everything went smooth. While executing the command I get the following errors -> any Idea how to fix this??: cc1plus: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes after a total of 720896 bytes

cc1plus: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes after a total of 688128 bytes

cc1plus: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes after a total of 745472 bytes

cc1plus: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes after a total of 741376 bytes virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1233: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/pvc_dec.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: Waiting for unfinished jobs.... virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:63: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libAACdec/src/FDK_delay.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:245: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libAACdec/src/conceal.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:349: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libAACdec/src/usacdec_ace_ltp.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:414: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libAACdec/src/usacdec_rom.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:453: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libDRCdec/src/drcDec_gainDecoder.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:557: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libFDK/src/FDK_bitbuffer.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:687: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libFDK/src/autocorr2nd.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:934: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSACdec/src/sac_bitdec.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1025: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSACdec/src/sac_reshapeBBEnv.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:960: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSACdec/src/sac_dec.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1051: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSACdec/src/sac_smoothing.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1077: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSACdec/src/sac_tsd.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1181: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/psbitdec.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1220: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/psdecrom_drm.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1272: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/sbr_ram.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1298: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/sbrdec_drc.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1246: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/sbr_deb.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1324: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSBRdec/src/sbrdecoder.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/build.make:1350: renderers/fdk-aac/CMakeFiles/fdk-aac.dir/libSYS/src/syslib_channelMapDescr.cpp.o] Error 1

[arnlen]

Out of memory issue... Which is your Raspi model?

---

Quick update on my side

• gstreamer installed
• cmake .. + make -j + sudo make install + sudo reboot and boom, new error:

rpiplay: error while loading shared libraries: libopenmaxil.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've also tried a sudo rpi-update, but still doesn't work.

[abdullahaltun70]

Out of memory issue... Which is your Raspi model?

---

Quick update on my side

• gstreamer installed

• cmake .. + make -j + sudo make install + sudo reboot and boom, new error:

rpiplay: error while loading shared libraries: libopenmaxil.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've also tried a sudo rpi-update, but still doesn't work.

Raspberry 2

[meaurieati]

Installing Raspbian buster lite (2020) worked for me too!

[giansegato]

If it can help, I downloaded Raspian Buster Lite (2020), and followed the entire procedure again. It worked!

where did you download buster lite en what steps did you exactly follow? I would really like to try according to your taken steps.

Downloaded it here. Remember to do a full apt update && apt upgrade since there's gonna be a lot of packages that needs to be updated (especially security ones).

[sternstef]

Out of memory issue... Which is your Raspi model?

---

In case of memory issues during compilation, try make -j1 or make -j2. The reduced parallelism worked for me.

[abdullahaltun70]

Out of memory issue... Which is your Raspi model?

In case of memory issues during compilation, try make -j1 or make -j2. The reduced parallelism worked for me.

It worked!! the steps I took were as follow:

1. download the Raspbian Buster .img from this link. (I downloaded the .zip file).
2. I used Raspberry Pi manager to install Buster onto my SD card.
3. I needed to install Git as it wasn't preinstalled somehow.
4. I executed the commands: git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git cd RPiPlay sudo apt-get install cmake sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev sudo apt-get install libplist-dev sudo apt-get install libssl-dev mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j

4.5. Instead of "make -j" I used "make -j2" because I encountered some memory allocating issues.

5. I started the server with "./rpiplay -n Monitor -a hdmi"

It went to a black screen as said and I could finally mirror my IPhone.

Hope this helps

[wdcossey]

Finally got it working with my Pi Zero 2 W using Bullseye Lite, I'll write what I did below step-by-step (feel free to chain the commands if you desire).

Install Bullseye Lite on your SD card, just use the Raspberry PI Imager

Update your OS

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Get OpenMAX from the firmware package, thanks @pallas

sudo rpi-update

reboot your pi

sudo reboot

Install GStreamer, thanks @8bignic8

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

Install git, pull this repo and cmake

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git
cd RPiPlay
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev
sudo apt-get install libplist-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
mkdir build
cd build
cmake --DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O3" --DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-O3" ..

Output of cmake

-- Found OpenMAX libraries for Raspberry Pi
-- Checking for modules 'gstreamer-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-sdp-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-video-1.0>=1.4;gstreamer-app-1.0>=1.4'
--   Found gstreamer-1.0, version 1.18.4
--   Found gstreamer-sdp-1.0, version 1.18.4
--   Found gstreamer-video-1.0, version 1.18.4
--   Found gstreamer-app-1.0, version 1.18.4
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/RPiPlay/build

run make (using -j2 for the Zero [2])

make -j2

Running ./rpiplay now will most likely result in an error (I had this issue on the Zero 2)

error while loading shared libraries libbrcmGLESv2 (or similar)

Correcting the symbolic link (from https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/133496 by DL1MX)

sudo apt install libgles-dev libegl-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so /usr/lib/libbrcmEGL.so

You should now be able to run ./rpiplay i.e. ./rpiplay -n "AirPlay" -vr rpi -ar rpi -a hdmi Alas, you will most likely still not get any output from HDMI (just a black screen)

Time to edit your config.txt

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Comment out dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d

i.e

# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver
# dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d

Optionally you can change dtoverlay to vc4-fkms-v3d (NOTE: fkms not kms)

Save the file, reboot your pi

sudo reboot

Navigate back to your build directory cd RPiPlay/build/ and run ./rpiplay i.e. ./rpiplay -n "AirPlay" -vr rpi -ar rpi -a hdmi

[8bignic8]

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

I tried that but I got:

aacDecoder_DecodeFrame error : 0x4002

Edit:

If I use the Screen Mirroring than it works, but not fluently. On RPi Zero2

When using gstreamer for Audio I get (rpiplay:812): CRITICAL : 16:02:52.237: gst_app_src_push_internal: assertion 'GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed

Also my sound when testing it with RPI 3+ is also really bad it soulds like it cant handle the sound stream and scambels it in short cunks. Do i need to somehow increase a Buffer size or what could be the problem?

Picture functions great when streaming with my Iphone SE_2 btw :)

EDIT_Works! when I open the programm with: Under: ~/RPiPlay/build $ WITH the command: ./rpiplay -b auto -n "AirPlay" -vr rpi -ar rpi -a hdmi -l

there is no choppy sound no more :))))!!!

[8bignic8]

If you only need Audio, that worked directly, https://github.com/juhovh/shairplay

[adoconnection]

@FD- consider updating readme please It was confusing for me that PriPlay can mirror screen but cannot accept video stream like youtube.

For my RPi 3B+ and iphone 12 I had to make following steps over SSH: @giansegato comments combined into one

1. Burn this particular image of buster lite: 2020-02-13 (bullseye will not work, for now dec 2021)

   https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2020-02-14/2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-lite.zip

2. update and upgrade

   apt update
   apt upgrade

3. install GStreamer there is one more package I had to install: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

   apt-get install \
    libx264-dev 
    libjpeg-dev
    libgstreamer1.0-dev
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
    libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev 
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
    gstreamer1.0-tools
    gstreamer1.0-gl
    gstreamer1.0-gtk3
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-good --fix-missing -y

   gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! autovideosink did nothing for me, it can be skipped

4. install RpiPlay

   apt-get install git cmake libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libplist-dev libssl-dev -y

   git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git
   cd RPiPlay
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   make -j

5. run

   ./rpiplay -n "SkyView" -a hdmi

[FD-]

Just for clarity: If you use Buster on a Raspberry Pi, you won't need any of the gstreamer stuff.

[adoconnection]

Just for clarity: If you use Buster on a Raspberry Pi, you won't need any of the gstreamer stuff.

i will try again, but im almost sure it did not work at a time I tried. if you enable wiki updates I can make an instruction page

[brechtknecht]

This issue was resolved for me by selecting the default video output option in sudo raspi-config.

2 Display Options → D1 Resolution → Default

[DaCHack]

Hi, thanks for the tutorials here! Could you please help to run RPiPlay on Docker in Raspberry PI OS 64bit Bullseye? I tried to adjust a Dockerfile based on @jhfdevelop 's and @wdcossey 's contributions, but have issues with the libbrcmGLESv2.so library: https://github.com/DaCapitalist/rpiplay_docker/blob/test/Dockerfile

[100%] Linking CXX executable rpiplay
/usr/bin/ld: /opt/vc/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so: error adding symbols: file in wrong format
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status                                                                          
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/rpiplay.dir/build.make:119: rpiplay] Error 1                                               
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:227: CMakeFiles/rpiplay.dir/all] Error 2                                         
make: *** [Makefile:149: all] Error 2                                                                               
The command '/bin/sh -c cd build && cmake --DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O3" --DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-O3" .. && make' returned a non-zero code: 2

Is that due to the fact that you described in another issue regarding 64bit libraries not being available? What do I need to change in the Dockerfile to either use 32bit libraries within the container instead or fallback to a gstreamer-only solution?

Thanks!

[Ccode-lang]

@adoconnection Was right. Installing that and rebuilding fixes all your problems.

[albocc]

@FD- Could you please update the README so the guide works with the latest Raspberry Pi image? (bullseye presumably?) When I saw the project I expected the steps to just work with the latest (lite) image. Now I am reading these issues and am told to use an old raspbian version instead, which is not a solution in my book.

EDIT: @wdcossey: I tried your guide and I finally managed to compile it on Bullseye. However, both of my HDMI outputs still just show the boot log and TTY login when I connect with a client.

My setup: Raspberry Pi 4B Raspbian version: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Kernel: 5.10.92-v7l+ Command: ~/RPiPlay/build $ ./rpiplay -n Raspberry -a hdmi (also tried: -vr and -ar options with gstreamer etc. and that did not work)

[Ccode-lang]

@albocc does Raspbian Lite come with a window manager? If not that may be your problem.

[albocc]

@Ccode-lang It does not, that is what the lite version is for. But I do not think that is necessary because I tried a docker image somebody else built which seemed to work. However, I would like to build it myself. Also, some people in this issue reported that they could get it to work with the lite edition, so it should be possible. 🤔

[bad2uXX]

Out of memory issue... Which is your Raspi model?

In case of memory issues during compilation, try make -j1 or make -j2. The reduced parallelism worked for me.

It worked!! the steps I took were as follow:

1. download the Raspbian Buster .img from this link. (I downloaded the .zip file).
2. I used Raspberry Pi manager to install Buster onto my SD card.
3. I needed to install Git as it wasn't preinstalled somehow.
4. I executed the commands: git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git cd RPiPlay sudo apt-get install cmake sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev sudo apt-get install libplist-dev sudo apt-get install libssl-dev mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j

4.5. Instead of "make -j" I used "make -j2" because I encountered some memory allocating issues. 5. I started the server with "./rpiplay -n Monitor -a hdmi"

It went to a black screen as said and I could finally mirror my IPhone.

Hope this helps

I have same issue with Raspberry Pi B+ with latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite ( release 28 January 2022), so I've decided to try with Buster and it worked. Thanks for detailed steps.

[albocc]

@bad2uXX "so I've decided to try with Buster and it worked." That's great for now, but the goal has to be to fix the guide for the latest release of Raspbian. At one point Buster will no longer be old-stable but instead deprecated and then this project stops working? Simply pointing to the old distro release is not a solution @FD-

[jscmidt]

I also don't get it to work. I've definitely installed gstreamer, and gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! autovideosink results in a test picture being displayed on the hdmi output. Also when compiling there are no errors:

cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 10.2.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 10.2.1
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found OpenSSL: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcrypto.so (found suitable version "1.1.1n", minimum required is "1.1.1")  
-- OpenMAX libraries not found, skipping compilation of Raspberry Pi renderer
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.2") 
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--   Found gstreamer-video-1.0, version 1.18.4
--   Found gstreamer-app-1.0, version 1.18.4
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-- Build files have been written to: /root/RPiPlay/build

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And when executing RPIPlay there are no errors, but the hdmi output continues showing the login prompt instead of turning black:

rpiplay -b on -vr gstreamer -ar gstreamer
Initialized server socket(s)
*** WARNING *** The program 'rpiplay' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
*** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
*** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahi-compat.html>

Any ideas?

[holubyev]

There no need to burn particular image and of course there is no need to have window manager hence the guide is about Raspbian Lite. I managed to get working on my old RPi Br2 by downloading official Lite version via PI imager. This is my configuration>

Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2
Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye Lite)
Linux pi 5.15.74+ #1595 Wed Oct 26 11:01:05 BST 2022 armv6l GNU/Linux

I followed the @wdcossey's guide (thanks for that), with only one addition (and I think with only one exclusion sudo apt install libgles-dev libegl-dev was already installed).

The main problem with new Raspbian is, that there isn't firmware files that RPiPlay needs for compilation: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/opt/vc/src/hello_pi/libs/ilclient. sudo rpi-update will download the whole firmware including these files, but the linker didn't find them in the final phase of compilation (although ilclient was built successfully in early stage of make -j2 command). My solution was to add these files to ~/RPiPlay/renderers/ directory before make -j2:

cp /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/libs/ilclient/* ~/RPiPlay/renderers/

Hope it helps.

[drk-rose]

@FD- consider updating readme please It was confusing for me that PriPlay can mirror screen but cannot accept video stream like youtube.

For my RPi 3B+ and iphone 12 I had to make following steps over SSH: @giansegato comments combined into one

1. Burn this particular image of buster lite: 2020-02-13 (bullseye will not work, for now dec 2021)

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2020-02-14/2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-lite.zip

2. update and upgrade

apt update
apt upgrade

3. install GStreamer there is one more package I had to install: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

apt-get install \
     libx264-dev 
     libjpeg-dev
     libgstreamer1.0-dev
     libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
     libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev 
     gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
     gstreamer1.0-tools
     gstreamer1.0-gl
     gstreamer1.0-gtk3
     gstreamer1.0-plugins-good --fix-missing -y

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! autovideosink did nothing for me, it can be skipped

4. install RpiPlay

apt-get install git cmake libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libplist-dev libssl-dev -y

git clone https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay.git
cd RPiPlay
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j

5. run

./rpiplay -n "SkyView" -a hdmi

Coming to you from the year 2023!

I got this process to work on the Pi Zero 2 W, but had to resort to the 2021-05-28 version of Buster.

At the top of the process on a fresh install, though, we of course had to get git: sudo apt install git

And to put it altogether in the end, I opted for: make -j2 sudo make install

To get it running and keep it running, though, it seems to only intermittently work unless low latency mode is on and the audio option for hdmi also has to be set: ./rpiplay -a hdmi -l

If you plan to have this launch on boot up, however, the same process from the RPiPlay wiki works, but you'll want to add those mentioned options right after the RPiPlay binary path. pi@raspberrypi:~$ nano .bashrc

# within an SSH-session, ${SSH_TTY} will be set if [ "x${SSH_TTY}" = "x" ]; then /home/pi/rpiplay # Or wherever the rpiplay binary is located fi

Hope this helps to keep this project running for us all!

Why buy a Google Chromecast when you could spend 15$ and several hours to get the results you want and slide a comment on a GitHub chat board? Lol

[a7mad3bdullah]

The only way I got it to work is by installing it on Raspberry Pi OS Buster not Bullseye. See 364