[SlimDevices: Beta] Windows installer question
This is for Michael, I guess: Is there a cmd line arg that can be used with the nightly exe files to allow unattended (no prompts) update over an existing SC? Something like: SqueezeCenter-7.2-23055.exe -q ?? Also, how would one get the SC version from within a plugin? -- gharris999 gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52134 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] r23010 change from ABR to VBR in Mp3 transcoding
CatBus;337204 Wrote: > Honestly not sure myself, but I can hypothesize. The whole point of MP3 > transcoding is to better accomodate limited bandwidth, or more typically > a highly variable bandwidth. There are also other scenarios. One is streaming to your workplace, where you don't want to hog too much of your company's incoming bandwidth (or raise flags with the IT staff). Another is if you pay a metered price for bandwidth. In either scenario, you may want to set a bitrate well below the maximum sustainable by the connection. > In a simple "dedicated player with a flaky wireless connection" > scenario, if the minimum possible available bandwidth is X, then it > makes sense that X should be the maximum possible bitrate. But if you > use vanilla ABR or VBR, you don't know what the maximum bitrate is, so > you can't guarantee the stream will work. > > So if you want to guarantee a certain amount of headroom, you have to > use CBR or set a hard upper limit on the ABR or VBR, otherwise you may > get odd bitrate spikes that may exceed the network's capacity. ABR has worked surprisingly well. Given the buffering on the receiving end you can easily permit some (or many) frames to be encoded above the set bitrate. The thing with setting _any_ bitrate when trying to maximize the rate to fit the given connection is that you just have to use trial and error. My home Comcast connection used to be 768 kbps outbound, yet I was unable to stream reliably at 256kbps. Maybe 1/2 the time it would work that speed. But it was too much trouble to keep changing it, so I just left it at 192 kbps. If this really was the concern (and ABR was failing for these reasons) then the better solution would be to go back to using CBR, where the quality will be better at a given bitrate due to the way the bit reservoir is used in CBR (and ABR). -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52045 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Buffer fullness in 7.3 - Flac vs. Mp3
Hadn't actually tried that. I see the 50% CPU when I run my flac to mp3 transcoding script. So I got as close as possible to the SC 7.3 conversion command. Code: "C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe" -dcs "E:\flac\Allman Brothers\Eat a Peach\04 Mountain Jam.flac" | "C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter 7.3 Trunk\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\lame.exe" --silent -q 5 -v -B 256 - "C:\temp\04 Mountain Jam.mp3" This is a 30+ minute track, so gives me a lot of time to watch what happens. The top capture is when run from the command line, the bottom is what I see when SC is playing the track to the bitrate limited player. +---+ |Filename: 2008-09-06_232730.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5809| +---+ -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51990 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
mherger;337536 Wrote: > > Not for me on 25031. When the page first loads it is fine. If I then > > Bottom left you've got the JS error. Please double click it and tell us > what's wrong. > > -- > > Michael Sorry, I meant to add it in to the last message but forgot. It's line 1112 on this page but I get various line numbers when I refresh it. Tim +---+ |Filename: dialog.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5808| +---+ -- timmorris timmorris's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Buffer fullness in 7.3 - Flac vs. Mp3
Err, what I meant to say was FLAC -> LAME :) -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51990 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Buffer fullness in 7.3 - Flac vs. Mp3
On Sep 7, 2008, at 12:01 AM, JJZolx wrote: > > awy;337354 Wrote: >> Presumably you have specifically configured the conversions so that >> the >> SB2 gets FLAC->MP3 transcoding. > > Right, via bitrate limiting for the player. > >> If you come up with any more information or insights it would be >> useful. > > I think Andy hit it - looks like it was LAME speed. I'd had the LAME > quality level set very high. If I set it lower and play a long track, > the buffer eventually fills up. Still, it takes a lot longer than I'd > expect. The odd thing is that the LAME process never gets above 5% > CPU > utilization, whereas if I run LAME from the command line, it will > peg a > CPU (a hyperthreaded CPU on a P4 in this case). The exact same LAME -> FLAC command line on the same file? ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Buffer fullness in 7.3 - Flac vs. Mp3
awy;337354 Wrote: > Presumably you have specifically configured the conversions so that the > SB2 gets FLAC->MP3 transcoding. Right, via bitrate limiting for the player. > If you come up with any more information or insights it would be useful. I think Andy hit it - looks like it was LAME speed. I'd had the LAME quality level set very high. If I set it lower and play a long track, the buffer eventually fills up. Still, it takes a lot longer than I'd expect. The odd thing is that the LAME process never gets above 5% CPU utilization, whereas if I run LAME from the command line, it will peg a CPU (a hyperthreaded CPU on a P4 in this case). -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51990 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
[SlimDevices: Beta] Alarm Clock, Alarm Clock
Anyone else seeing this in 7.3? I _think_ it happened when I added a second alarm to this player (since deleted, added again, deleted again, with no change in the display). It's like this for all players (no other players have alarms), but only on the Alarm Clock page. . +---+ |Filename: 2008-09-06_213358.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5806| +---+ -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52127 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
If you then click on the music library group to expand it I get this error: Same error, different place: +---+ |Filename: pscrn.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5805| +---+ -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
With ie7 on Windows Vista sp1 I get: After clicking the ie refresh with the music library option expanded and none of the other ones expanded I get this error. However, it seems to take about 20 seconds or so to show up AFTER the "done" is displayed in the lower left. Line 255: +---+ |Filename: pscrn.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5804| +---+ -- dwilliams01 dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
> Not for me on 25031. When the page first loads it is fine. If I then Bottom left you've got the JS error. Please double click it and tell us what's wrong. -- Michael ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
Dammit - you're right. But at least it's 'useable' first time in. What version of IE are you using? -- bonze TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.3 - 23051 3 x wireless SB3 + a Duet bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
Not for me on 25031. When the page first loads it is fine. If I then click the refresh button the menu collapses and I can't open it up. I can restore functionality by clicking on the search icon and then on the home link in the top left hand corner. Screen grabs attached. On Windows Server 2003 all I see is the "broken" screen, and I can't do anything to restore functionality. There seems to be about three threads reporting the same issue. Tim +---+ |Filename: Broken.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5803| +---+ -- timmorris timmorris's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Left side squashed
This seems to have been fixed with the latest 7.3 nightly. :) -- bonze TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.3 - 23051 3 x wireless SB3 + a Duet bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51200 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.2 Firmware Confusion
This issue has been reported by others as Bug 9411. For what it's worth, updating via the card works. -- Millwood Millwood's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52050 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Buffer fullness in 7.3 - Flac vs. Mp3
Presumably you have specifically configured the conversions so that the SB2 gets FLAC->MP3 transcoding. If you come up with any more information or insights it would be useful. -- awy awy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51990 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Problem with SqueezeScrobbler?
OK, now I'm confused because the culprit appears to be: [playlist, addtracks] Only SqueezeScrobbler didn't subscribe to that... James -- James James's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51986 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Problem with SqueezeScrobbler?
This looks like a bug in SqueezeCenter. SqueezeScrobbler is just processing a command notification and doing this with it: my $paramsRef = [$request->renderAsArray()]; So the original command appears to be badly created? (It's one of these: 'play', 'pause', 'stop', 'power', 'mode') James -- James James's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51986 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SC 7.3 Web UI Oddities
I'm still seeing the same problem as in pose 1 on vista, XP and 2003 with IE7. It's intermittent. I've cleared the IE and squeezecenter caches. Tim -- timmorris timmorris's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51742 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
