rmjb;580782 Wrote: > Some of the errors I got on the streams were "Icecast connection limit > reached" which tells me the local stations are not putting a lot of > effort into providing their internet streams. Not necessarily - there could be a lot of expat users using the internet but the station cannot afford network charges to support more users as they will only have a small local listenership which actually generates revenue. > > I just read your SharkPlay plugin thread, that is some great work > there! > I was looking at using a QNAP NAS as the centre of my media platform, > since this runs on an ARM based Linux will the plugin even work? > There is only a small custom application to tune the Radioshark and this could be built for an ARM system assuming the right tools, libraries and kernel modules (for USB support) are available.
There are two more fundamental issues: 1. An audio subsystem such as OSS, ALSA or very unlikely Pulse is required. 2. To encode a stream from WAV into Flac requires processor power and you have not specified the model - IIRC QNAP have NAS which have ARM processors ranging from about 250Mhz to 1.2Ghz. It is possible to get around this but you would need a good network to stream WAV. You can test for the presence of an audio subsystem by plugging in some sort of audio sort such as USB microphone, USB audio adaptor, USB Headphone set used for Skype etc. - often PC users have one of these. If OSS is installed then you will see new devices such as /dev/dsp0. For ALSA check the directory /proc/asound. Once USB audio device is installed, check if you can you use arecord to copy the audio stream into a file. If arecord is not available then is likely ALSA is not installed. Use cp on /dev/dspx (x is a number) if OSS devices are used. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82391 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
