[slim] AlienBBC 0.97 Observations.......(1 possible bug)

Patrick Delamere Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:58:16 -0700

Hi,

Just finished installing Slimserver 6.0.1and AlienBBC 0.97 (SuSE Linux 9.2). Having installed AlienBBC 0.97, some things appear to have stopped working……….

Initially, I couldn’t get my playlists in my AlienStream folder to play, as all I was getting was “AlienBBC: Attempt to play non URL: /var/slimserver/playlists/AlienStream/wdr5-wm32.asx”. Playing the supplied BBC streams was not a problem. To solve this, I changed some code in the AlienBBC "Plugin.pm" file.

By adding the ! into the “If” statement below, I was able to force AlienBBC to recognise my playlists in the AlienStream playlist folder as being remote streams and play them.

After changing the line below, the supplied BBC Streams did stop working, so it wasn’t 100%, but at least my own playlists work now, which is what I mostly use AlienBBC for anyway. Would be nice to have both working though……… :-)

if (!Slim::Music::Info::isRemoteURL($stream))

{

$::d_plugins && msg("AlienBBC - Playing: $name ($stream)\n");

Slim::Control::Command::execute($client, ['playlist', 'play', $stream, $name]);

}

else

{

$::d_plugins && msg("AlienBBC: Attempt to play non URL: $stream\n");

}

I was no longer able to play my .smil files despite making the above change. The only way to get these to work was to remove all the content inside, except the URL itself, and then change the file extension to either .rm or .ram. See my log output below:

2005-04-08 23:13:42.9688 unk file type for /var/slimserver/playlists/AlienStream/WDR5.smil (before)

2005-04-08 23:13:42.9297 rtsppl file type for /var/slimserver/playlists/AlienStream/WDR5.ram (after)

I assume that “unk” stands for unknown file type.

AlienBBC is no longer as forgiving as before with my badly formed ASX files! ;-)

Before AlienBBC 0.97, I just used to put the stream URL into a file and just call it <radio station>.asx. To get these working, I have had to change my files to look as follows:

<title>Cadena Ser</title>

<entry>

</entry>

</asx>

Before, all that was in the file was mms://a874.l784138873.c7841.e.lm.akamaistream.net/D/874/7841/v0001/reflector:38873.

Clearly I have broken something by making the code change above, but for me, it pretty much does everything I want it to, so it’s no problem for me, although a proper fix would be nice. :-)

Are the problems described just with my system, or is this a potential bug in AlienBBC 0.97? If there is a way of getting the above working without my code change, please let me know!

Thanks,

Patrick

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