I have been testing various ways of getting my OLD laptop (166Mhz 80Mb RAM Toshiba 305CDS) to run as a music player from a remote slimserver.
This is where I am at: I have an XP machine running Slimserver - no probs. I have a DSL Linux running on the laptop. I can play stuff well using XMMS and a browser - the only exception being the BBC streams from AlienBBC (incidentally I still dont really understand why these wont play if they are being encoded to MP3 at the server end?). I cannot use Softsqueeze with either the GUI or Headless as the machine grinds to a slow but sure halt - CPU 100% (have tried various combinations of jLayer, MP3 Plugin and buffer sizes). Frustratingly I can get snippets of BBC Radio using this method which tells me that Im close...I have pretty much given up here though as I think the machine just doesnt have the guts to run Java. Now along comes SqueezeSlave which I have been testing over the last few days - playing MP3's from my collection is VERY responsive compared to any other method (CPU - 30%) so far although occasionally I do seem to loose the connection or Squeezeslave stops running. Encouragingly I have also played some non-BBC stations from AlienBBC although I do get encode errors showing in the terminal. Suppose I just wanted to encourage the development of this great app and let you know that for some of us it may be our only hope! :~) If there is any constructive feedback I can supply please let me know, bearing in mind that I am pretty new to Linux and the SS world Thanks -- cookeal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cookeal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20799 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
