Video does not start on child (tile) pi after connection is established with parent

[Leo Morales]

Hello,
I encountered an issue attempting to stream a video file on my single-tile test set-up. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated <3 

When I run the following  command on the child(tile) pi,

 pwomxplayer –config=VideoWallConfig udp://239.0.1.23:1234?buffer_size=1200000B 

then run the following command on the parent (master),

ffmpeg-re -i VerseJump_Horizontal.avi -vcodec copy -f avi -an udp://239.0.1.23:1234

the console on the child appears to indicate that data is being streamed and the parent's console seems to indicate that it is streaming the video file, but no video plays on the child.

[Leo Morales]

Child (tile) pi:

[Leo Morales]

Parent pi:

[Leo Morales]

Notes: 

- One tile Pi, hostname: pi02.  Tile id named after the host name in .piwall and .pitile files.

- Video file:

• VerseJump_Horizontal.avi 

• 2048x600

• Located in home directory on parent Pi

[Leo Morales]

Contents of .piwall (on both parent(master) and child): 

[VideoWall]

width=2048

height=600

x=0

y=0

 

# corresponding tile definitions

[pi01v]

wall=VideoWall

width=2048

height=600

x=0

y=0

#config

[VideoWallConfig]

pi02=pi01v

Contents of .pitile (on child pi hostname:pi02):

[tile]

id=pi02

[dasl]

I'd suggest starting by seeing if omxplayer can play the video file locally. That way you can isolate whether it's a problem with the video file or a network issue.

[Leo Morales]

Okay interesting!

Trying to play the video locally using this command instantly crashes the child Pi:

pwomxplayer ~/VerseJump_Horizontal.avi

And on the parent Pi the console displays an error message about not being able to find the libopenmaxil.so open libraries. That issue persists even after running rpi-update .

Thanks for the suggestion dsal :]

[dasl]

Probably related to this: https://groups.google.com/g/piwall-users/c/Gdu3YeuFO8M