John, This sounds kind of similar to the problem I had the other day. When I first set up AlienBBC, it would either say "connecting" and then not get anywhere, or it would connect for a couple of seconds, then would stop, then play a couple more seconds, then stop again.
It sounds like maybe you are somewhere between these 2 extremes - e.g. connecting - thinking the connection has dropped, then connecting again etc. What fixed it for me was a couple of things. Firstly, I didn't unzip the codecs to the right place. Or, more to the point, I unzipped them to the correct location but didn't realise they when I unzipped them they actually created a new folder beneath the "codecs" folder. Check in the codecs folder - there should be a bunch of files, but no subdirectories. If that's all ok, then try installing LAME and setting some bandwidth limiting. Unzip LAME to the same folder as mplayer (e.g. \Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) - I chose NOT to overwrite the file called "LICENCE". Then restart SS, and it should not pick up the fact that you have LAME and you should be able to set a limit (Player Settings>Audio). In fact, I've now got mine set to "no limit" but it seems that this doesn't matter so long as LAME can actually convert to MP3 for me. Dan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hall Sent: 04 April 2005 12:23 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K I'm using Slimserver 6.0 for Windows 2000 with AlienBBC 0.97 and mplayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 on my old SliMP3 unit. This is the first time I've tried to use this plug in. I've extracted the mplayer executable and placed it in: \Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Both the codecs and drivers sub-directories for mplayer are located here too. I've downloaded the mplayer codecs pack and extracted to the codecs directory. After restarting the Slimserver I can see the AlienBBC plugin menu ok. If I attempt to run any stream (Radio 1, Essential Mix etc.) it will say 'connecting...'. After a while the screen will show that it is playing the stream (the timer increases in seconds). This happens for a few seconds and then it goes back to 'connecting...'. The Slimserver menu thinks that it is playing the stream... This process repeats. In any event, there is no sound. Nothing. Navigating the menu to say a Shoutcast stream, and it all works fine. Can you help? Cheers, John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
