SlingPlayer

What works

• Installation of SlingPlayer version 2.0.4.521 (like described in the HOWTO)
• Starting SlingPlayer
  

What does not

• Connecting to any SlingBox
• Error message: "There was a problem communicating with the Slingbox. Try connecting again."
• Alternatively: sometimes a "Programm Error" pops up while trying to connect
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

video playback from any SlingBox

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

It looks like SlingpLayer 2 has been broken between the Wine releases 1.1.40 and 1.1.43, as it *works* for me with 1.1.40 but not with 1.1.43 and 1.2-rc1 (I didn't have an opportuntiy to test 1.1.41 nor 1.1.42) NOTE: -it makes no difference if wme9, ie6 and directx9 where installed or not -also no difference if the Z: drive is present or not -"Garbage" rating, as SlingPlayer is useless without the opportunity to actually connect to a SlingBox

The following has been tested with Wine 3.0-rc4 under Linux.  If you are having trouble, make sure you are using the latest version of Wine. 

1. If you don't already have winetricks, read this.
2. Run WINEARCH=win32  winetricks -q quartz wmp9 dsound
3. Install Slingplayer.  The installer will fail at the end, but is installed.

You should now have a working Slingplayer 2!­ 

Note: For remote viewing, you will need to have a working SBProfile.xml from the previous 1.X version of Slingplayer (or a local machine, or a Windows box) and drop it into ~/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/Sling Media/SlingPlayer/2.0/ (this directory can vary depending on your Wine version - the same is true in Windows). If you are located on the same logical network, Slingplayer should be able to pick up the Slingbox itself (via broadcast) and this stage may not be required.
Note: HTML components (such as the login page and the Setup Assistant) do not work at the time of writing.
Note: IES4Linux or IES4MacOSX are not supported.  Report bugs to their maintainers.
Note: As of Wine 1.5.6, Mono is favoured over dotnet. If you are using Wine <1.5.6 then you will need to install dotnet.­

Please note that "Clip+Sling" may not be available in your area (for legal reasons).

This has nothing to do with Wine.

If you experience an assertion failure while the SlingPlayer is loading, issue the following command and try again:

winetricks orm=backbuffer

<SBProfile xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><DeviceDB>
<Device dbid="{FE6DBE86-B320-11DD-979E-0016D4AD06A5}" username="admin" password="E1:" name="Sling" port="5001" address="1.1.1.1" useaddress="2" last.address="1.1.1.1" last.port="5001" id="????????" deleted="No" modified="2009:06:10 13:55:46:652" product.id="1" slingboxId="" countryId="" lastAccessTime="2009-09-09 17:16:48.0">
<Input ID="0" RemoteControlID="{799dd5a0-d165-11da-a94d-0800200c9a66}"/>
<Input ID="3" RemoteControlID="{556D9FAE-F691-4a56-99C6-2609D3154644}" AspectRatio="5"/></Device>
</DeviceDB></SBProfile>