Not working on Arch (TROMjaro)

[tiotrom]

Installed from AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/powder-player-bin/#news

[tio@tio-pc ~]$ powder-player
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

As far as I understand it requires an older version of VLC? If so, will this be fixed? Thanks!

[jaruba]

It might work with the newest VLC installed. (but it is doubtful)

I recommend having VLC 2.2 installed if you wish to use Powder Player on Linux.

This project is built with the WebChimera.js technology (as I was a part of the development effort of this technology), which creates a bridge between libVLC and Node.js. On all other OSs except Linux, the correct libVLC version is bundled with the app, but Linux is.. special.. so it needs VLC installed in order to use it properly.

This is a technology limitation as WebChimera.js hit a roadblock at a certain stage and could only work with certain versions of different technologies, so this project is also stuck in the same situation. Since then, WebChimera.js was abandoned for the same reasons.

I plan to rewrite the entire project with different technologies as I also attempt to merge this project with the Powder Web project.. This would be the 4th or 5th time the project is rewritten, but I can't give an ETA as to when this will happen, as my time is unfortunately very limited..

[tiotrom]

Thank you very much for the explanation. I am very happy to hear that you are rebuilding it. I'll keep an eye on the project for sure and maybe we can help build an appimage or flatpak so that we can package everything properly ;)

[bitnom]

What does webtorrent do different?