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hzeller / gmrender-resurrect

Resource efficient UPnP/DLNA renderer, optimal for Raspberry Pi, CuBox or a general MediaServer. Fork of GMediaRenderer to add some features to make it usable.
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Only sound. No video on Headless RPi #221

Closed iot-resister closed 4 years ago

iot-resister commented 4 years ago

Awesome project!. Thank you so much for maintaining this. I'm running on a headless raspberry pi with only X installed. No desktop environment and no window manager. I can stream video using open max player and an app like raspberry cast. With gmrender, I can stream sound but no video shows. Is there a video dependency/player that I'm missing?

here is my log output of a video only playing sound from a local file with upnpdroid ( all the filetype registrations removed):

https://pastebin.com/raw/w79gfHda

mill1000 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I've never actually used the video functionality and I don't have the time to dig into this right now. But, gmrender-resurrect uses gstreamer underneath to handle all it's decoding. So you may find answers searching around for gstreamer. I'd also try to play a video using the gst-launch-1.0 command line tool and see if you can get that to work first.

iot-resister commented 4 years ago

Hi @mill1000

After a much trial and error I got the right options to play.

gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=file:///home/pi/test.mp4 video-sink="xvimagesink display=:0 "

and the corresponding gmrender commad gmediarender --friendly-name Test --logfile=stdout --gstout-videosink="xvimagesink display=:0"

However, I seem to have lost sound,, which I assume is me figuring out the --gstout-audiosink option. Also I cannot get full screen.

Thanks for your guidance!

mill1000 commented 4 years ago

Try autoaudiosink, although I don't know why you'd have to manually specify it.

Also I noticed in your log the connmgr is only registering support for a single MIME type

INFO [2020-11-24 02:10:49.327869 | connmgr] Registering support for 'video/x-zmbv'

Are you aggressively filtering this on purpose? Otherwise it might be an indication that your gstreamer setup is wonky.

iot-resister commented 4 years ago

no I removed all the mimetypes from the logs to make them more readable. Thanks for checking though!