| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/popcorntime.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | popcorntime |
| Description: | Stream movies from torrents. Skip the downloads. Launch, click, watch. |
| Upstream URL: | https://popcorn-time.site/ |
| Licenses: | GPL3 |
| Submitter: | ItachiSan |
| Maintainer: | ItachiSan |
| Last Packager: | ItachiSan |
| Votes: | 57 |
| Popularity: | 0.90 |
| First Submitted: | 2016-03-01 20:36 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-05-05 13:11 (UTC) |
@ItchiSan
The pilot played fine with the now oprhaned package. Plus, I have not made any changes to my system as far as ffmpeg or codecs are concerned.
Therefore, I think the problem is not with my installation. Lets hope that we are able to solve this.
@Itchisan,
I didn't complete the steps 2 and 3. I will soon complete them as I am short of time as of now. However this is what I get when I try to play the pilot of The BigBang Theory Season 1 (of course :p). This I could as of now.
https://i.postimg.cc/qRL9KGX6/Screenshot-20190506-145543.png
@Kaliwaal & @kronikpillow, I've rebuilt the package and tested a few movies, which includes but are not limited to:
All of them worked well at both 720p and 1080p.
As I can't reproduce the issue, I have a few things I can say:
Waiting for feedback!
@Kaliwaal & @kronikpillow didn't have time untill now for testing, going to rebuild the package now.
Just to mention, Arch standard environment is usually much more updated, in term of tools, than the official team's one, leading to differences in the Node packages installed, which usually break stuff.
On the other hand, it might be that the FFMpeg prebuilt library had some changes in the past days, that might be also a reason why the codecs does not work anymore.
@ItachiSan upstream doesn't accept bug reports from badly packaged user repositories as it's not a upstream bug, the popcorntime-bin package works without any problems and never needed any codecs and uses the same source, which means this package is missing something ...
I have found a situation that on some videos i have video no audio, and on some videos i have audio no video... i don't think that .mp4 and .mkv are weird codecs/file formats
@ItachiSan I can confirm that I am having the same error. I installed this package a couple of hours ago after removing the orphaned popcorntime-bin package.
A video file was not played because of codec errors and had to watch it in vlc, which aslo had codec issues with that file.
Never faced such issues with the previous package
@kronikpillow I will try to rebuild the package tonight; if I find the issue playing a few movies, I will investigate further, but if I don't encounter the problem it might be that film which has a weird codec.
Additionally, not all the ffmpeg-available codecs are available but a few more than the usual ones, which are the most mainstream ones. Check: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/ to see which ones are.
hm.... movies/series aren't displaying video, only audio when running butter, when streaming trough VLC it works just fine, so ... what codec could i be missing?
Hi @ItachiSan. Thanx for the tip. Submitted.
https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/issues/1000
@vagelis not sure why that happens, I actually never had a tray icon; maybe you can report an issue upstream?
Pinned Comments
ItachiSan commented on 2018-07-24 21:01 (UTC) (edited on 2021-06-14 09:35 (UTC) by ItachiSan)
You are free to report issues regarding the packaging here! Please read all the info of this message as they include quite some information.
Be aware that sometimes the package will fail to build because of outdated upstream and updated dependency, which will require me some time to test and solve the problem.
I do also have life stuff, packaging is a free-time activity.
I believe I have an issue that is Arch-related and not upstream related
I too found out only recently this way to debug the app (as of: 2021-06-13), which helps immensely.
Whenever reporting here or on the Github issues, please provide the output of the command:
In case you are forwarding the log to a file, as the log entries will end in
stderr, remember to redirectstderrtostdoutInfo regarding the package
The package uses the sources available at: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop. I am aware of the different clones and branches; I do still believe that this code is acceptable (not affected itself from malware).
This package uses a custom NW.js build provided from the PopcornTime team; essentially, a custom compiled browser. While this won't affect you as it should be used only within the app, you are here informed that I have no power over this component.
The above point stands as the official NW.js Chromium source lacks multiple modern codecs, such as AC3 and HEVC (H.265).
Earlier this package used the official nw.js toolchain provided available at https://dl.nwjs.io/ and the prebuilt FFmpeg library with additional codecs available at https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/ . This was because the nw.js toolchain provided by the PopcornTime team can not be proven as non-malware easily. However, due to point 3, this approach was reverted. You are free to use an older PKGBUILD with the appropriate variable updates to re-enable this, however you will miss support for recent codecs.
In addition, the PKGBUILD won't point to the Git release reference but will also include important commits, for e.g. security reasons or providers changes.