FATAL_ERROR: Can't recieve value from the server. When playing WMA.

Submitted by tjhowse on Mon, 2006-11-06 02:11

Forums:

I compiled and installed ffmpeg (svn release, 12 hours old as of writing this post), libmad, libid3tag, libogg and libvorbis. Then MOC 2.4.1 stable.

MP3s and OGGs play fine. However when I try to play a WMA file I get a "FATAL_ERROR: Can't receive value from the server." and a really ugly crash. The blue screen of MOCP stays up with the terminal prompt super-imposed over some of the bottom of the screen. The terminal behavior goes crazy too. I had to restart putty and reconnect to get it back to normal.

I see no MOCP processes running when I do a "ps ax | grep mocp".

mocp -D: http://scythe.gotdns.com:1337/mocp_debug.zip

As you've probably gathered I'm somewhat new to this Linux business. The main reason I'm messing with this is to learn more about the OS.

Thanks,
--Tjhowse--

tjhowse

Mon, 2006-11-06 02:21

Whoops, I'd put the wrong log files in that zip. Re-download the log files if you've downloaded them already.

--Tjhowse--

hiben

Mon, 2006-11-06 14:42

Perchance you've obtained a problematic ffmpeg-snapshot.
I'm using a snapshot from August 16 2006 (actually a bit patched by a gentoo-package maintainer, but nothing essential I think) and have no problems.

Maybe you should give an older snapshot a try but perhaps the problem lies elsewere...
If you have specific packages for your distribution, you should test with them before using a snapshot IMHO.

Good luck anyway :-)

anjames

Sun, 2007-03-04 19:46

I am having this problem using Gentoo moc ~2.4.1 and ffmpeg 0.4.9_p20061016. I also tried the ~0.4.9_p20070129 version with no success (no aac codec for some reason...)
What are the use flags you have gotten this working with?

hiben

Mon, 2007-03-05 13:04

If I remember this correct, there is a small problem with the ffmpeg-includes in moc.
I made a very small patch (2.4.1-ffmpegbug.patch) that fixes the problem and use an overlayed ebuild for moc.

Why this problem only seems to occur on Gentoo is something I do not understand...

If you are interested you can use my ebuilds (by the time of this also for 2.5.0-alpha1) : http://www.tzi.de/~hiben/moc/

(I will post the ebuild on gentoo-bugzilla sometime later I think...)

smlgbl

Mon, 2009-01-12 00:35

Hi,

using the current unstable version 2.5.0-alpha3-r2 on gentoo, I am still having this problem.
Any help is appreciated...
I also tried it with the ebuild of hiben, but it gives the same...
Also svn checkout does that...

What to do...???

Check out the debug files at http://www.eightonions.com/gentoo/moc/mocp_[client|server]_log

ghost001

Sat, 2006-12-23 15:04

I'm using ffmpeg(svn20061221). Compiling moc 2.4.1 prints out a warning : ffmpeg: implicit declaration of function 'logit'.
I have fixed that by adding #undef LOG_H in ffmpeg.c. Now I can play .m4a and .wma without crash.

moc-2.4.1/decoder_plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c:

/* FFmpeg also likes common names, without that, our common.h would not be
* included. */
#undef COMMON_H

#undef LOG_H

#define DEBUG

daper

Sat, 2006-12-23 19:30

I've fixed it about a week ago in SVN, so the next release will not have this bug.

--
Damian Pietras - MOC developer

jcf

Tue, 2012-02-28 19:39

This crash is now possibly resolved by SVN commit r2398.

jcf

Thu, 2012-03-01 03:15

Screen upset after FATAL resolved by SVN commit r2413.