airstream not running Ubuntu 12.04

[danryu]

I wanted to check out how well this worked - looks promising - but I just got this back. Tried with both ruby 1.8 and 1.9 as default interpreters.

This is a fresh install, first run "out of the box".

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dan@mango:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4$ airstream --version /usr/local/bin/airstream:19:in `load': /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream:6: odd number list for Hash (SyntaxError) reciever: '192.168.1.8', ^ /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream:6: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '}' reciever: '192.168.1.8', ^ /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream:6: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting $end from /usr/local/bin/airstream:19

[unused]

Which version of ruby 1.9 did you tried? This is not an error but a compatibility issue with older ruby versions (before 1.9).

[danryu]

Hi! This is what my default interpreter is now:

dan@mango:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-linux]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 x64, I thought the apt 1.9 ruby would be OK .... Any help in getting this running much appreciated ... kudos for the tool, by the way!

[unused]

Hi dan!

did you try running: ruby /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream

it seems your system is using ruby 1.8 anyway, 1.9 should be OK

[danryu]

Wow ... this is really getting complicated .... when did Ruby get so hard?

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dan@mango:~$ ruby /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 'require': cannot load such file -- airstream (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in 'require' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/airstream-0.3.4/bin/airstream:3:in '

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[unused]

thx - this error shows your ruby 1.9 has no gem airstream installed, i'm not that into ubuntus ruby version handling but i would recommend installing rbenv (on user-level) and ruby-build, you can do by:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile $SHELL git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build rbenv install 1.9.3-p362 rbenv global 1.9.3-p362

echo "ruby version should be version 1.9.3-p362" ruby --version gem install airstream rbenv exec airstream --version

also see https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv, http://www.stehem.net/2012/05/08/how-to-install-ruby-with-rbenv-on-ubuntu-12-04.html

[danryu]

I had no idea Ruby versioning was so sensitive. Anyway, I installed with rbenv as you suggested, and now it works.

airimg seems to work fine - I tried some pngs and jpegs. airstream makes a connection, as the AppleTV shows the grey spinning circle, and "loading...." is echoed in the terminal but eventually times out with "An error occurred loading this content" on the AppleTV. I've tried a range of mp4 files, including H264/AAC content, and the results are always as above.

netstat shows port 7000 listening while airstream is running, and there are no firewalls on the LAN. Curious!

[unused]

From time to time I also recieved the "An error occurred..." message, but I couldn't figure the problem out yet. Anyway after hitting back to the atv menu and restarting the airstream command, it should work.

Have you tried any remote files? Try: rbenv exec airstream "http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4"

[danryu]

No password protection was on the atv, I did check that .... I didn't get a chance to do a remote file test, and I'm gone from the device now .... Thanks for the tips. Good luck with any development you do on it!

[justizin]

I have this same problem, I can load the remote URL you referenced, even when downloaded as a local file, but not a larger local mp4 / h264 file. It feels like Apple TV times out receiving data for the larger local file, as the small.mp4 you referenced starts much slower when streamed as a local file.

I get no error, the airstream process seemingly tries forever after Apple TV has thrown an error. I installed first against Ubuntu's system ruby, but have now set up an rbenv with the version you specified and am running rbenv exec airstream.

UPDATE : If I expose large mp4 files via http on the local network via basic Apache2, they play great. In this case, does it simply pass a URL to the output instead of pushing bytes?

[captainsudo]

yup. I had the same issue as bitmonk. Set up a simple Apache server. But instead of feeding "localhost" to airstream, I had to use the IP on the local network, http://192.168.2.... and it worked like a champ.