Application Details:
| Version: | 1.5 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://www.slingmedia.com/ |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.0-rc3 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Streaming video and audio, changing channel, full screen (not perfect)
What does not
Fullscreen reverts back to windowed mode when the virtual desktop is changed. Window resizing is slow and not responsive.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing (as far as I know)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
gdiplus.dll required, along with dlls found at: http://www.slingcommunity.com/downloads/wine/slingplayer_dependancies.zip
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 24 2017 | 3.0-rc3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 12 2017 | 2.10-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 21 2017 | 2.2 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 17 2015 | 1.7.45 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 21 2017 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Ken Sharp |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 3548 | .lnk file is created on the desktop together with the program icon... | NEW | View | |
| 17972 | Problems with Slingplayer channel icons | NEW | View | |
| 18010 | Slingplayer video tuning wizard fails | NEW | View | |
| 31651 | SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes when streaming | NEW | View | |
| 31655 | Upgrading Wine destroys registry entries | NEW | View | |
| 31848 | Printing from command line not implemented in Wordpad | NEW | View | |
| 31882 | Many multithreaded gui apps randomly deadlock in winex11 driver surface section (arial32.exe, Aquanox, Mahaa demo, Total Commander) | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 44230 | SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes during configuration | NEW | View | |
| 44232 | Menus in Slingplayer 1.5 do not draw until mouseover | NEW | View | |
| 44233 | SlingPlayer 1.5's uninstall doesn't remove any files | NEW | View | |
| 52126 | InstallShield uninstall fails in a 64-bit wineprefix | NEW | View |
Upgrading Wine deletes necessary registry entries. This can be avoided by running wineboot after the upgrade, and before running SlingPlayer.
You can also disable this by running
echo disabled > ~/.wine/.update-timestamp
Bug #1260901 describes a bug in the Ubuntu PPA's version of Wine which causes the SlingPlayer to crash in user32. It is apparently caused by patches added by the PPA team.
Do not report this as a Wine bug.
Tested in Ubuntu 16.04 under Wine 3.0-rc3:
You should now have a working SlingPlayer!
If you experience an assertion failure while the SlingPlayer is loading, issue the following command and try again:
winetricks orm=backbuffer
