Can't make it work under Mint 18.3

[colibris79]

Hi,
My Acestream installation is working fine under Mint 18.3 Mate, but I wanted to try your launcher to see the acestreams with mpv or other players. For some reason I always get that the "Stream unavailable!" error (I'm trying working streams under the normal installation).
I am in China so I am trying both with my vpn on or off.
I've also got this other error when trying to use it with my vpn on:

Stream unavailable!

Exiting...
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acestream/engine.py", line 56, in _start_process
    self.process.communicate()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'communicate'

Any ideas? Thanks

[jonian]

Hi @colibris79, please run launcher with the -v argument and provide the output.

[colibris79]

Hi @jonian . Thanks for your fast response.
Here it goes:

Connecting to Acestream engine...2018-11-19 09:33:04,310|MainThread|acestream|platform=linux
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|app=acestream
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|version=3.0.5.1 code=3000501 revision=1415 date=2014-12-10
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|use_local_db=True
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|use_m2crypto=True
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|enable debug: 0
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream|get_default_api_version: 2
2018-11-19 09:33:04,311|MainThread|acestream.coreapp|use fixed i2i_port: 62062
2018-11-19 09:33:04,335|MainThread|acestream.SocketHandler.InterruptSocket|bound on 127.0.0.1:44721
2018-11-19 09:33:04,335|MainThread|acestream.SocketHandler.SocketHandler|bind: socket bound: host=0.0.0.0 port=8621
2018-11-19 09:33:04,335|MainThread|acestream.LM|listen on 8621
2018-11-19 09:33:04,361|MainThread|acestream.VideoServer|start: addr=127.0.0.1 port=6878
2018-11-19 09:33:04,366|MainThread|acestream.SocketHandler.InterruptSocket|bound on 127.0.0.1:46292
2018-11-19 09:33:04,366|MainThread|acestream.SocketHandler.SocketHandler|bind: socket bound: host=127.0.0.1 port=62062
2018-11-19 09:33:04,366|Instance2InstanceThread-24|acestream.APIServer|run: ready to receive remote commands on 62062
Stream unavailable!

Exiting...
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/acestream/engine.py", line 56, in _start_process
    self.process.communicate()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'communicate'

I've tried a stream that was working and another one that was not and got basically the same output

[Hedronmx]

Getting the same error

[alexjp]

the new beta version of acestream for linux should fix this error

[colibris79]

@alexjp , where can I download beta versions for acestream?
EDIT: found it. Guess you refer to this ones:
http://wiki.acestream.org/wiki/index.php/Download

Has anyone tried it with acestream launcher already?

[alexjp]

follow this link: http://wiki.acestream.org/wiki/index.php/Download#Linux ( its the link on the readme of this project ).

in there, on the linux binaries, you have the beta acestream

EDIT: yes, it works ( if you have a libcrypto.so.1.0 missing, its because it needs openssl 1.0 ( some distros already have 1.1 ) )

[tp0]

Does the issue in OP happen with the Snap package too?

I'm using the Snap package on 18.10 Ubuntu (OP's Mint 18.3 is 16.04). No issues.

[colibris79]

I couldn't make it work even with the snap package. And now the acestream:// links in browser are not being opened by the acestream player y have to manually open it and copy the url to play the stream. How can I restore my browser to open automatically the acestream:// links with acestream player?