pwomxplayer crashing our pi

[TEnns]

Hi, we've installed pwomxplayer on a pi, and are able to run 

pwomxplayer --help

without any errors.

however, when we try to play a local video, by running

pwomxplayer --config=VideoWallConfig  thevideo.avi

The pi screen goes blank and the system appears to have crashed. We have to unplug and re-plug the pi to get it to turn back on.

has anyone had this happen to them before, or does anyone know a way to get more information about crashes like this? thanks!

the config file looks like:

[videowall]

width=2048

height=600

x=0

y=0

[pi01v]

wall=videowall

width=1066

height=600

y=0

x=0

[VideoWallConfig]

pi02=pi01v

and the .pitile file is 

[tile]

id=pi02

[dasl]

Might be a similar issue to here: https://groups.google.com/g/piwall-users/c/QuIo0leaGsM/m/RITpFmrzAgAJ

You could try playing the video locally with just the omxplayer program and see if that emits an error message. If not, try adding the --genlog option to omxplayer to see if any more info is in the log file.

[Leo Morales]

Hey there! I'm trying this out on my end too, and I ran into problems trying to compile the vanilla omxplayer from here: https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer 

After cloning the repository, navigating to it and trying to run the ./prepare-native-raspian.sh script I get an error message saying that I am missing requred packages.

It recommends running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git-core libasound2-dev libva1 libidn11-dev libboost-dev  libssl1.0-dev libssh-dev libsmbclient-dev

But when I do it the process stops and the console reads a message saying "unable to locate package libva1".

Also; does pwmxplayer have the option of creating a log file when it crashes?