Zattoo on Fedora 8

[gertdesmet]

Hello,

If you get the following error when trying to run zattoo :

zattoo_player: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It is because the link to the libcurl library is not correctly written on Zattoo's website.

If you create the link like this :

ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.0.1 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3


It will work. Hope it helps someone :)

[rjt]

I get:

$ zattoo_player
zattoo_player: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3: no version information available (required by zattoo_player)
zattoo_player: /usr/lib/zattoo/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by zattoo_player)
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] Current locale is en_US.UTF-8
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] Welcome to Zattoo (3.0.8.9191)
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] Further log messages will be written to /home/rt/.Zattoo/Data/logs/zattoo.debuglog

With zattoo.debuglog just containing:
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] Welcome to Zattoo (3.0.8.9191)
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] OpenGL Info:
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] GL_RENDERER = GeForce 6500/PCI/SSE2
05:09:21 PM 01/08/2008 [MSG] GL_VERSION = 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.07

and nothing else. If I start it as root I also get a smudgy box (presumably the Zattoo player) open for a few seconds. I don't think the libcurl or libcrypto errors are fatal. Somewhere else it was suggested that Zattoo may not be able to find the licence information but I think it is in the right place.

I do have libcurl.so.3 as a link to libcurl.so.4.0.1 in /usr/lib

[gertdesmet]

Hi,

Did you install gtkglext and xulrunner ? Did you create all the sym link and verified that all the files they are pointing to existed ?

I get the exact same output as you do when running zattoo_player.

[rjt]

All the sym links seem OK – xulrunner is in /opt rather than in with Zattoo, but that should not cause a problem.

About gtkglext I'm not so sure. In Yum Extender I have:

gtkglext-devel
gtkglext-libs
gtkglextmm
gtkglextmm-devel
pygtkglext
pygtkglext-devel
ruby-gtkglext

all installed. There is no "pure" gtkglext listed in "available". There doesn't seem to be a gtkglext-1.2.0-4.fc8.i386 package available anywhere. I downloaded gtkglext-1.2.0.tar.bz2 from SourceForge and extracted, compiled and installed that (seemingly successfully). I tried to install gtkglext-1.2.0-4.fc6.i386.rpm but got:

# rpm -Uvh gtkglext-1.2.0-4.fc6.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/libgdkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0 from install of gtkglext-1.2.0-4.fc6.i386 conflicts with file from package gtkglext-libs-1.2.0-5.fc8.i386
file /usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0 from install of gtkglext-1.2.0-4.fc6.i386 conflicts with file from package gtkglext-libs-1.2.0-5.fc8.i386

[gertdesmet]

Just use use the version from yum, remove the rest. I didnt need to compile anything, all I did was a yum install gtkglext.

[rjt]

Without uninstalling anything (I'm not sure I know how to uninstall everything) I get:

# yum install gtkglext
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Requested dep: gtkglext is provided by installed package
Nothing to do
#

[infinihertz]

I get the exact same error. I followed numerous tutorials online, and am pretty sure I have the correct symlinks in place. gertdesmet, what type of video card drivers are you running? I wonder if that could have anything to do with it. I also have NVIDIA 169.07.

[infinihertz]

To respond to myself, it's not a video issue. I followed the instructions here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=154733&highlight=zattoo and used xulrunner 1.8.0.4. The 1.9 prereleases are unstable and cause Zattoo to not work.

By using this version, Zattoo runs, but gives a popup error of Flash not being installed, even though it's in /usr/lib/flash-player/, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, ~/.mozilla/plugins/, and PATH_TO_XULRUNNER/plugins/. I tried this with both Flash 9 and Flash 7 (you can get old versions of Flash from Adobe here: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1).

Anyone know how to deal with the Flash issue?

[rjt]

I've had xulrunner 1.8.04 installed (in /opt) all along. I've now uninstalled firefox-devel and moved xulrunner from /opt to /usr/lib/zattoo and reset all the links. Still the same result. Does xulrunner-devel need to be installed? If so which version from where?

[infinihertz]

I didn't install xulrunner-devel, and got it working fine with just xulrunner. I also didn't need to move xulrunner to /usr/lib/zattoo/ - it's actually on a different partition with libxul.so, etc. still symlinked.

What architecture are you using for this? I know sometimes Mozilla builds work differently (if at all) with other applications if they're different versions. Everything I'm using is the i386/x86 version (including Fedora itself), even though I'm on x86_64 hardware.

[rjt]

I'm using i386/x86 install on a 2x2.13GHz Core 2 Duo machine with 2GB RAM.

I've an older machine (2GHz Celeron) with Fedora 8 installed but it has only got 256MB of RAM, so I don't know if it is worth trying to get Zattoo to run on it.

[infinihertz]

Hmmm, I'm not sure offhand what the issue is. I do however have good news - I will be a Zattoo employee starting January 21, and because of my interest have been told I can try to revamp the Linux player. I'll try to talk with some of the Zattoo guys before then to figure this out, but if I'm not able to, feel free to bug me starting a couple weeks from now :) I seriously don't want stuff like this to get lost, and certainly don't want Ubuntu to be the only distro that the player works well on (which I hear it does).

[rjt]

Looking at this thread (in German):

http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=78497

I get almost identical output to that at the link:

http://phpfi.com/288620

(Running it with gdb I get a smudgy Zattoo window opening.)

[infinihertz]

Now that I've been at Zattoo a few weeks, I managed to improve the process by which we generate RPMs (since only Debian and Ubuntu are officially supported). Please login to zattoo.com and download the new release. It's actually better on many levels, and includes some new features (like an electronic program guide).

Please reply to this thread if there are still issues. You should not have to do any symlinking, and you shouldn't have to download or install xulrunner (it's part of the RPM now). There shouldn't be any workarounds whatsoever, based on my internal testing with Fedora 8.

Thanks!

[rjt]

Have you a link to it, please? I can still only find 3.0.8.9191-1 on the download page.

[infinihertz]

If you log into the site using the link at the top of the page, enter your username and password for the player, and then on the download screen scroll to the bottom, there should be a link to the preview release. The actual link is https://zattoo.com/download_tech_preview, but you may be redirected if not logged in. There should be a post on the Zattoo blog about this soon (maybe today, but I'm not sure), and that may clear things up as well.

It should be available in every European country in which there is service, except Spain. If you happen to be in Spain at the moment for travel or whatever (your profile says UK), there are a few small complications we're dealing with, and we hope to release there soon.

[rjt]

Got it working! Great! Many thanks!

[waveland]

It should be available in every European country in which there is service, except Spain.

Hi infinihertz,

:( That's such a bad news for me!! I'm from there...

could you maybe specify why it couldn't be available in Spain? it may be for long time? do you know if there's a workaround for us from Spain?

Thanks!

[leigh123linux]

Now that I've been at Zattoo a few weeks, I managed to improve the process by which we generate RPMs (since only Debian and Ubuntu are officially supported). Please login to zattoo.com and download the new release. It's actually better on many levels, and includes some new features (like an electronic program guide).

Please reply to this thread if there are still issues. You should not have to do any symlinking, and you shouldn't have to download or install xulrunner (it's part of the RPM now). There shouldn't be any workarounds whatsoever, based on my internal testing with Fedora 8.

Thanks!

Does Zattoo work with pulseaudio ?

[infinihertz]

Hi infinihertz,

:( That's such a bad news for me!! I'm from there...

could you maybe specify why it couldn't be available in Spain? it may be for long time? do you know if there's a workaround for us from Spain?

Thanks!

Hi waveland,

If you download the latest Zattoo player (3.1.0), it should be available everywhere now, including Spain. It was delayed because at the time we didn't have Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data for Spanish channels (we do now, at least for most of them). We had some delays because we have to license the data, but that was taken care of. We didn't want to launch the player without EPG data, since that was one of the biggest features in the 3.1.0 release.

Please let me know if you have any issues.

Thanks!

[infinihertz]

Does Zattoo work with pulseaudio ?

Hi leigh123@linux,

I've used Zattoo's latest release (3.1.0) as well as internal builds since then with Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 8.04 Beta (not Fedora 9 Beta yet). Both of these systems use Pulseaudio as far as I know, and I haven't had any issues.

I remember at some point recently we were developing with libasound2 (ALSA). I'm not very familiar with Pulseaudio yet and don't know if we can develop directly for it, if ALSA calls get routed through it, etc. I don't think I understand your question - do you want to know if it depends on any non-Pulseaudio libraries, or if it'll play on a system using Pulseaudio? Or are you asking something else entirely? If you just want to know if it'll run on a system that has Pulseaudio installed and running, the answer should be yes.

Please follow-up if you want to know more and can clarify things.

Thanks!

[leigh123linux]

Hi leigh123@linux,

I've used Zattoo's latest release (3.1.0) as well as internal builds since then with Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 8.04 Beta (not Fedora 9 Beta yet). Both of these systems use Pulseaudio as far as I know, and I haven't had any issues.

I remember at some point recently we were developing with libasound2 (ALSA). I'm not very familiar with Pulseaudio yet and don't know if we can develop directly for it, if ALSA calls get routed through it, etc. I don't think I understand your question - do you want to know if it depends on any non-Pulseaudio libraries, or if it'll play on a system using Pulseaudio? Or are you asking something else entirely? If you just want to know if it'll run on a system that has Pulseaudio installed and running, the answer should be yes.

Please follow-up if you want to know more and can clarify things.

Thanks!


Thanks for confirming it uses alsa :cool: , I run F8 & F9 ( rawhide ) x86_64 and have had some issues with sound ( no sound ) .

I have now fixed the problem by installing

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386

it needs the 32 bit plugin to work with pulseaudio.


P.S it run's fine on F9 Rawhide x86_64

[Lebenskuenstler]

Thanks for confirming it uses alsa :cool: , I run F8 & F9 ( rawhide ) x86_64 and have had some issues with sound ( no sound ) .

I have now fixed the problem by installing

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386

it needs the 32 bit plugin to work with pulseaudio.


P.S it run's fine on F9 Rawhide x86_64

How did you install Zattoo on your x64-System? I have read, that you have to istall manually all these libs in 32-bit version one by one, which are required by Zattoo.

That doesn't sound like fun at all.

According to a Ubuntu Forum these are over 40 ... Is there somewhere a list with these dependencies ????

LK