@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

Guessing you're using YT.rexx to watch videos on YT, I hope you
caught that only "static" videos are shown with MPlayer, live
video on YT is played with FFplay.

I'd also guess the German TV channels are also "live" video
streams, so it seems like they are following the same pattern -
playing in FFplay, not in MPlayer.

So maybe you just need to configure however you're gonna watch
these streams to use FFPlay?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

I tried one of the URLs with both MPlayer as well as FFmpeg's
ffplay and neither could play.

With MPlayer it just said "failed to play".

With ffplay it said "Server returned 403 Forbidden (access denied)".

It looks like a different kind of error than you described.
Maybe I'm geofenced from being able to watch German TV?

In any case, you might want to try the stream URL's with ffplay
instead of MPlayer. FWIW, live video streams on YouTube won't
play in MPlayer either.

Good luck,

PJS

@Gebrochen

Catching up with the threads...

I didn't see if you said which version of Limpid Clock you were
running.

When I looked for it, I saw there was a v1.17 from Nov 2006 on
OS4Depot, but if you go to Thomas Rapp's webpage, he's got a
slightly newer version - by date at least - listed:

https://thomas-rapp.hier-im-netz.de/amiga/limpidclock.html

I don't frankly understand why that's "v1.8" but with a later
date, but maybe that helps you?

Good luck,

PJS

@Gregor

Hi Gregor,

Just catching up with threads and I saw the issue with the
MPlayer scripts.

I'm not sure exactly how you're calling the scripts, but if you
want to run the volume scripts, you could wrap the message code
in there with a check for the MPLayer port, like this:

---
if (showlist('p','MPLAYER.1')=1) then do
address MPLAYER.1
VOLUME '-1'
end
---

Of course, if you're using ARexx scripts, it wouldn't be much
of a leap to loop testing for more MPLayer ports and address the
highest numbered port (or maybe even the one that was playing,
if the MPlayer command set allowed).

Alternately, you could use a CLI command line like this to
simply send the VOLUME command directly to the first MPlayer
ARexx port without any script:

---
rx "address MPLAYER.1 VOLUME '-1'"
---

If the port isn't found, you should just get some feedback
about the host environment not found, etc.

Good luck,

PJS

Hey guys,

Well, this same thing just happened to my X5K... My machine
has been on for days/weeks and I had a bunch of things open
(AmIRC, IB, Codebench, etc) and at the moment was alternating
between AmigaAmp and YT vids in MPlayer... and the X5K just
shut off. First time ever. :/

I restarted it and more closely watched the temps with Javier's
X5000temp docky - the CPU started at 51C and went to around 52.
But "PCIe" started at 78C and rose to 79C. But then it locked
up starting another YT vid in MPlayer.

Any idea what exactly the PCIe temp is reflecting? Some chip
related to the bus? Would that reflect gfx card temp or more
then that?

I saw someone in the X5K Case Fans thread mention the acceptable
range for the CPU being 15-105C. Any ideas on PCIe?

More importantly, is this simply a sign I need to add to add
more fans to the case? Maybe my PSU is going (it's the one from
original build)?

I'll take sometime to reseat things, vacuum things out and see
how things go....

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

PJS

@Chris

Hi Chris!

I just emailed you a capture from the shell as requested as well
an old Snoopy log and several serial logs on crashes.

Please let me know if you need anything else!

Thanks,

PJS

@Chris

Hi Chris,

I deleted the user/-name-/choices file and tried the test v3.12, build
03.01.2024 posted here, but Netsurf is still asking for guigfx.lib all
the time.

Specifically, when I started Netsurf choices-less I was presented a
screenmode requester, as soon as I selected a screen, the guigfx.lib
complainer was revealed underneath. As soon as I clear that, the Netsurf
splash window disappears and a new screen with Netsurf appears.

On restarts, I always see the guigfx.lib complainer. I tried setting
NetSurf to run on my 32bit Workbench (preferred), but still everytime
it also complains about guigfx.lib when starting on the WB.

I tried that Netsurf install on my X5K on some simple webpages with little
or no javascript and it seemed to work fine - very quickly even. I tried
a bunch of Amiga sites that loaded great and most of the time Slashdot did
too.

But everytime I entered Wikipedia's URL (http or https) or any heavier
JS sites, I just get "Fetching. Processing." and Netsurf is hung - totally
unresponsive. Close gadget doesn't work. Ctrl-C in the shell doesn't
work. Often it locked up my X5K.

I captured a number of crash and serial logs of the crashes in case you
want them. Please let me know.

While I did have Netsurf running I noticed a few other things...

- "snapshot window" doesn't actually snapshot - the window location is
not saved in "choices" until the menu "Save Settings" also selected.
Shouldn't the "Snapshot" menu do that job alone to fullfil its label?

- quitting always shows this in the console:

***Command 'NetSurf' returned with unfreed signals 01000000!

Meanwhile, the v3.11 build has been running pretty nicely on my vanilla
OS 4.1 FE update 2 SAM460. No further operational comments at the
moment.

Thanks & Congrats on a nice job!

PJS

@Chris

I did a couple installs of the new NetSurf... Interesting...

First, I put 3.11 on my X5K with an out of date beta system and
it did as others have reported... It complained about
guigfx.lib and could find no websites.

I installed the latest 2005 guigfx.lib package and that made no
difference. It seems like the complainer for that in Netsurf
is barking up the wrong tree.

I also tried installing the v3.11 on my vanilla 460 FE2 system
and it installed fine. No asking for guigfx and it was able to
find websites.

IMPRESSIVE WORK ON THAT MACHINE

It ran fairly quickly and did a nice job of rendering a few
parts of a few modern webpages. CONGRATS!

But then I tried your most recent v3.12 test build on my X5K...

I installed it, it complained about guigfx again and it just
hangs trying to access any websites.

That got me to thinking about the installs... In all cases I
ran your install script. It seemed like the installation on the
460 copied waaaaaaay more stuff than was installed on the X5K
with either build.

Is it possible this all is an installer config problem and that
parts are being left out depending on the systems and OS
versions?

Just some food for thought.

Thanks anyway for your work on this!

PJS

Given what it's based on, isn't AmiPDF supposed to be open source?

In theory that would mean the source should be avaialble.
Couldn't any bug fixes be ported from MattyOS back to AmigaOS
for everyne to use?

Thanks,

PJS

@Capehill

Thanks for looking into this! I'm sure MickJT will be happy
I stop bothering him about this. ;D

PJS

@smarkusg

Yeah, it would be better to see the mouse pointer then to never
see the pointer... I can move it out of the way! ;D

How did you disable pointer blanking?

Thanks,

PJS

@Maijestro

Hi,

Interesting... I've been hitting this bug with all the previous
builds as well as testing with a soon to be released v6.1 of
FFPlay.

I tried to look at your video but it is not a YT video (as
suggested), it goes to something called "veed.io", YT.rexx finds
nothing and the .mp4 link inside just says "Forbidden by worker":

https://cdn-user.veed.io/render/ec1896 ... e62-9d74-613ff8ac7855.mp4

In any case, the consistent problem is the pointer not reappearing
when the FFplay window on the WB is active and pointer not
over the window.

EDIT:

A friend looked at your video on his peecee and said your video
demonstrates the bug I am reporting... your mouse disappears
at 35 secs, 51 secs, etc. and doesn't reappear till the pointer
is over the FFPlay window again.

So how do you get the pointer back without getting BLINDLY back
over the FFPlay window or BLINDLY clicking elsewhere on the
screen (causing something unintended to happen?)?


Where did you get FFplay v6.0 from?

Thanks,

PJS

Hi all,

Over the years I've noticed this bug with a disappearing mouse
pointer when playing live streaming video in FFplay (using
YT.rexx).

I've been told this is actually an SDL2 issue since FFPlay uses
SDL for its GUI. Anyone notice this or have an idea whether it
can be fixed?

The issue is specifically that when the FFPlay window opens,
after a few seconds the mouse pointer disappears. Understandable.
It stays gone as long as FFplay is active window.

But the only way to otherwise get the pointer back is to try
clicking BLINDLY outside of FFPlay's window or to BLINDLY move
the pointer over the FFPlay window (it reappears briefly) and
then try to click safely outside.

The blind clicking is a really bad thing when you have a WB
full of windows.

Shouldn't the mouse pointer simply reappear if you move the
mouse around even if FFplay/SDL is active? It does not now.
Can this be fixed?

Please let us know.

Thanks,

PJS

@orgin

Thanks for adding the Classifieds area!

I was looking at how to get the area to show up on my home page,
but then I never found that control (using IB) and realized most
of the time I'm not logged in anyway.

;)

But I wonder, why not have classifieds on the homepage?

Thanks again!

PJS

@Chris

Barrier?

The question is: How hard would it be to port AND who wants to
do it? Is it even open source? (/me knows nothing about it)
Is it peer to peer or do we need a client & server?

;D

Thanks,

PJS

@TiredOfLife

Saw your post.  Please see your messages.

Thanks,

PJS

@kas1e

I emailed broadblues' color improved AmiVNC to you. If anyone
else wants to give it a spin, let me know here.

Thanks,

PJS

@MartinW

Apparently there is a really old Amiga client for a cross
platform keyboard/mouse sharing system called Synergy that I'm
told still works...

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... work/misc/amisynergyc.lha

There's also an ARexx GUI for it...

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... work/misc/asynergygui.lha

I haven't tried it myself.

Honestly, my Amigas are the only machines that are on 24/7, so a
server would be a lot more useful. ;D

Thanks,

PJS

Hey guys,

I'd suggest you will have a lot better luck installing the
YT.rexx scipt and MPlayer to stream YouTube.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=video/misc/yt.lha

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... o/play/mickjt-mplayer.lha

(As far as I know there are newer versions of both in the works)

With those installed, you can add context menus to Ody, IBrowse
and others and reliably stream static and live YouTube videos
with a lot more reliability.

Thanks,

PJS