Omxplayer and Bullseye

[Egnos]

Hi guys,
since installing Bullseye I have discovered some bad news: “As of Raspbian Bullseye release (as well as RPi4B), omxplayer and the hardware decoding that work hand-in-hand are deprecated and/or unsupported.”
For now I’m using the “cvlc …” command for locally display RTSP streams from security camera systems.

I launch the command outside of the MM and I see the picture…as I did before with Omxplayer, but from the terminal i get many errors:

magicmirror@raspberrypi:~ $ cvlc --no-audio --autoscale --video-on-top rtsp://___________________________/stream1
VLC media player 3.0.17.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
[00000055c2e2bb70] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
Created new TCP socket 11 for connection
[0000007f64016a80] avcodec decoder error: unspecified video dimensions
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
[0000007f4c0013e0] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:opengles2 module
[0000007f4c0013e0] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:mmal_vout module
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c07a4b0] chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3)
[0000007f4c071510] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c078390] main filter error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c0013e0] main vout display error: Failed to create video converter
[0000007f4c0013e0] main vout display error: Failed to adapt decoder format to display
[0000007f5c006960] main video output error: video output creation failed
[0000007f64016a80] main decoder error: failed to create video output
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
[0000007f54001410] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:opengles2 module
[0000007f54001410] mmal_xsplitter vout display error: Failed to open Xsplitter:mmal_vout module
[0000007f64016a80] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed (delay 1000000, buffering 0, bound 9000000)
[0000007f64016a80] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 1662708441772695 for FFmpeg
[0000007f64016a80] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented

after a day sometimes the camera window disappeared and i get this error:

[0000007f5c001160] live555 demux error: keep-alive failed: liveMedia5
Created new TCP socket 11 for connection

Do you have any other ideas?
Which module to use to view video surveillance?

Thank you all.

[plainbroke]

@Egnos
Go back to Buster it all works there. Bullseye and rstp do not really play well in my opinion. VLC is a mess for me in Bullseye. Buster Omxplayer works again with rtsp… Wish someone much smarter than me could fix that problem with Bullseye. I went as far back as Stretch to get a wireless dongle to work with one of my RPi’s…

[Egnos]

Thanks @plainbroke which version of buster do you recommend? The last One?

Is there a quick way to transfer the modules to the new MicroSD … without having to re-download all the modules again?

[BKeyport]

@Egnos sadly, I wouldn’t even recommend Buster. OMX crashes everything regularly here. I’ve taken to using the camera’s snapshot feature, and MMM-Proxyimage to display a frame every two seconds to keep things stable.

From my point of view, it’s been a race to see who can bloat out the most lately, electron, camera providers, etc. Leaving our poor little hobby computers in the dust.

[Egnos]

@BKeyport so would you go on a Stretch?

[sdetweil]

@Egnos latest node/npm don’t work on stretch, and thus electron

[Egnos]

Windows?! 🤣

[sdetweil]

@Egnos most of the GPIO stuff doesn’t work on windows…

[Egnos]

@sdetweil in fact mine was a joke!

So which OS does the least damage?

[plainbroke]

@Egnos
I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Just my 2 cents. Unless someone much smarter than me can fix Omxplayer in Bullseye. I have resigned myself to stay on Buster until I can’t anymore…

[plainbroke]

@Egnos
Use sdetweil’s backupRestore module it makes it pretty easy to reinstall it all into a working order and it saves your config.js and custom.css very important in my case I do not want to ever go through all the hours spent trial and error testing to get my mirror the way I wanted it…

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke buster is the Legacy image

[Egnos]

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

Use sdetweil’s backupRestore module it makes it pretty easy to reinstall it all into a working order and it saves your config.js and custom.css very important in my case I do not want to ever go through all the hours spent trial and error testing to get my mirror the way I wanted it…

Thanks @plainbroke for the advise and thanks @sdetweil for creating the script.

I will install on a new MicroSD Buster and test the operation.

[Egnos]

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.

Do you use a module in particular to view the stream of the cameras or do you launch omxplayer outside the MM?

Thanks

[Egnos]

sdetweil said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

buster is the Legacy image

What changes from the “normal” version?

[BKeyport]

@Egnos nothing. It’s just the previous release.

[plainbroke]

@Egnos
I use MMM-RTSPStream I have 5 separate instances running, without any issues as long as the cameras are up and running.

[Egnos]

@plainbroke is there a particular reason why you use different instances of the same module instead of multiple streams in configuration (e.g. stream1, stream2, stream3, etc.)?

Thanks

[plainbroke]

@Egnos
I have one camera show at a time using mmm-carousel, they use the full screen one at a time in various places in my line up of modules. I have 40+ modules running on my Mirror .

 module: "MMM-Carousel",
config: {
 transitionInterval: 43000,
 ignoreModules: ["MMM-DynamicWeather", "MMM-ModuleScheduler"],
        mode: "slides",
        slides: [
                ["MMM-CalendarExt3"],
                ["calendar", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["facts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["iFrame"],
                ["MMM-ATM", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Bored", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream"],
                ["MMM-CalvinAndHobbes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-CloneWarsQuotes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Cocktails", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-covid19", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DailyQuote", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DarkSkyForecast", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Dogs", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DumbAssCatFacts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream2"],
                ["MMM-EARTH", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Evil", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-EyeCandy", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Gas", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-GmailFeed", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-History", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-icanhazdadjoke", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-ImagesPhotos", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream3"],
                ["MMM-MotionEye"],
                ["MMM-MyWordOfTheDay", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-NetworkScanner"],
                ["MMM-NFL", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Oneliner", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-OpenWeatherForecast", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-quote-of-the-day", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream4"],
                ["MMM-RAIN-MAP"],
                ["MMM-rfacts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-SimpleLogo", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-SingleStock", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Todoist", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["on-this-day", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["random_quotes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream5"]

[Egnos]

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

@Egnos
I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Just my 2 cents. Unless someone much smarter than me can fix Omxplayer in Bullseye. I have resigned myself to stay on Buster until I can’t anymore…

Hi @plainbroke , I installed the Buster as per your advice and for now everything works fine! Thanks!
I just have some problems with the bluetooth connection between the RPI and the bluetooth speaker (Nest Audio …), after a certain time of inactivity of a few hours the bluetooth disconnects!

Have you also had this problem with you?