*********This problem will only affect you if you have original SliMP3 players or you limit the bitrate for your players (perhaps because of flaky WiFi)***************
After a while away from Alien BBC (my ancient RH8 server entered a library dependency vortex in 2006 preventing me from running Squeeze > 6.2, but I've now got a new shiny server running OpenSUSE x64 with SC 7.2). I got round to installing the latest mplayer & Alien a couple of days ago and all worked fine after reading and eventually discarding lots of out of date information on configuration of mplayer. So far so good, Softsqueeze and Squeezebox now playing (although Softsqueeze requires you to pause and un-pause after starting the stream to get it to actually send it to the sound hardware). One problem remained - my ancient SliMP3 just produced white noise for anything Alien could output. The SliMP3 does not support raw PCM or flac, so Squeezecentre uses lame to transcode it to mp3. To confirm this was the problem, I limited the Softsqueeze player to 320kbps forcing it too, to use lame to transcode to mp3. Same result - white noise. Looking at the lame process that runs when you playback a stream like this, it specified an option -x which forces byte reversal of the stream. There's nothing I could find to indicate the stream coming out of mplayer would be byte backwards, so I tracked this option down to the custom-convert.conf and removed it. This fixes the problem and my SliMP3 now plays back Alien streams as mp3. So if you experience this, try editing /usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/Alien/custom-convert.conf and change the line:- rtsp mp3 * * [mplayer.sh] $FILE$ | [lame] --silent -r -x -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ - - to:- rtsp mp3 * * [mplayer.sh] $FILE$ | [lame] --silent -r -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ - - Good to see the forum still working well - I fixed several other issues in the last few hours searching here. Cheers, Scoot. -- Scooter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scooter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53149 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
