Hotkeys not working under Arch Linux Arm

[rabreu]

I've been trying to use omxplayer (git package) under Arch Linux Arm, but omxplayer seems not to listen any keyboard commands.
Also, dbus is started. It used to work when I used the non-git package, even if it had some audio problems.

Edit: I switched to the git package because the non-git package had some problems with audio (some little noises). The noises are solved on the git package.

[parched]

I too have this problem, what should we check/do?

[rabreu]

@parched Are you running Arch Linux or raspbian?

[parched]

Arch, compiled from git like you. Hotkeys don't work via TTY or SSH. I haven't tried the non-git package however.

[parched]

I think it is something to do with the arch patched Makefile, it doesn't link against dbus by the looks. I will have a proper look into it tomorrow and see if I can fix it.

[rabreu]

Let us know if you find a solution.

[parched]

Ok, I just didn't have dbus started, the AUR start script lacks the lines
if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]; then
eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)
fi
Works fine now. Is dbus definitely started? Does
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
return something?

[skgsergio]

If it's building without dbus problems then it should work. Maybe as @parched noticed its that omxplayer isn't listening dbus or isn't aware of its existence.

As you are building from git you are not using my wrapper script I made for the Raspbian version, maybe you should give it a try. Replace omxplayer script for this one and see if it works: https://gist.github.com/skgsergio/6825354

[rabreu]

"echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" returns nothing.

It's weird, because systemctl says it's running:

$ systemctl status dbus
dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2013-11-22 10:08:05 UTC; 45s ago
Main PID: 1167 (dbus-daemon)
CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
`-1167 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork -...

[parched]

Hmm that is strange, well you are out of my realm of knowledge now so I can't help you sorry. What I said about the arch makefile not linking dbus was wrong BTW, it was just in a different order so I missed it, would've failed to compile anyway.

[rabreu]

@skgsergio yaaaaaaaay! It finally worked!

Thanks in advance!

[rabreu]

I thought this merge solved the problem, but it didn't.

[skgsergio]

It should fix it if applying the fix in my previous comment worked :/

Can you exec sh -x /path/to/omxplayer and paste me the output? (preferably in pastebin.com)

[rabreu]

http://pastebin.com/xLex9siV

[rabreu]

Running your script: http://pastebin.com/2edZbkj8

[skgsergio]

The issue was fixed in 7f93b61 but I found your problem.

Your problem is that the omxplayer-git AUR package has its own launcher script so you are not using the one in this git repository.

You have two options:

• Use the script of this git repository by downloading it manually using the following link every time you update the package with AUR: https://raw.github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer/master/omxplayer
• Contact the AUR package maintainer and ask him to patch its script.

[rabreu]

Ok, sorry for the long delay.

I tried downloading the omxplayer script manually and overwriting the actual one but I've got an even more weird error:

http://dpaste.com/1530605/

And then the raspi freezes and I have to force its reboot.

PS.: Running as root returns me the same error.

[popcornmix]

Are you sure the omxplayer script is correct? My omxplayer script doesn't call bind.

$ grep bind  `which omxplayer`
$

[rabreu]

I'm using this one:

https://raw.github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer/master/omxplayer

I think it's the line:

echo 0 > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind

[popcornmix]

@skgsergio
The repo omxplayer (script) and the deb omxplayer are different - any reason not to merge them?

[skgsergio]

@popcornmix Because my script has two warnings that are for raspbian, anyway I can rewrite them to be generic and make a pull request. Anyway the ArchLinux package installs his script so the repo script is not used there.

[rabreu]

I just messaged the omxplayer-git aur package maintainer to take a look at this thread.

[parched]

The reason the AUR version has a different start up script is because of the different font directory. Would the normal version use /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf ? If it does then there should be no need for the change. If it doesn't it would be better to patch the source in the PKGBUILD than provide a different launch script I think.

[rabreu]

I had to install the package ttf-freefont and create symbolic links for solving this issue:

$ ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/            
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 13 20:11 FreeSans.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Nov 13 20:16 FreeSansOblique.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf

Omxplayer-git package doesn't have ttf-freefont as a dep.

[parched]

It's an optdepend, we should add this to the build()
sed -i "s,truetype/freefont,TTF,g" omxplayer.cpp
then we can use skgsergio's script

[pickfire]

I am using the omxplayer-git from Arch but even after

$ ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 28 15:12 FreeSans.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSans.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Oct 28 15:12 FreeSansOblique.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSansOblique.ttf

The subtitle still doesn't work at all when I pressed m.

Subtitle count: 1, state: off, index: 1, delay: 0

[exidyboy]

Subtitles are toggled on and off with the 's' key as per 'omxplayer -k'.

[pickfire]

I tried that but the subtitle still isn't display in the screen.
And you can toggle subtitles with the 's' or 't' key.