[slim] question about duet screen brightness setting...
is there a key shortcut to adjust the brightness control without having to navigate through the settings menu? also, is there a document listing the key shortcuts on the controller? i looked on the wiki and didn't see anything. thanks, -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49662 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Controller Wireless Reception
Anyone having signal strength problems may want to try getting their hands on a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54. It has a built-in amplifier that boosts its signal strength dramatically. I own one and can attest that it is not marketing BS. It really does put out a much stronger signal than any other access point I've ever used, including newer 802.11n APs. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48985 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
funkahdafi;312846 Wrote: > As a matter of fact I have darwinports installed :) > > But did I get it right that by using faad I will re-encode to MP3? I > really don't want to do this... > > While we are at it: How does SC decide which entry in the convert.conf > to use? I can setup multiple decoding entries for a single file type > (same thing in the SC webinterface, where I have three choices per > filetype). How do I tell which one is being used? > > Thanks, btw... I may be wrong (please someone speak up if I am), but I believe that SC decides which transcoding option to use based on the capabilities of the player and a few rules. For players that don't natively support AAC I think it prefers to go mov->mp3 rather than mov->wav to reduce the amount of data streaming over the network to the player from SC. Streaming uncompressed audio over the network might choke a slower wifi network, for example. You can create custom rules for certain players given the player name and/or mac address if you want to force it to stream a certain format to a specific player, but I don't really know how to make a certain format the default. The easiest way I know of to tell what SC is doing for transcoding is to look at the running processes while a song is playing. If faad and lame are both running, chances are it's doing mov->mp3. I'm sure there's an easier way, but I don't know what it is yet. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
funkahdafi;312832 Wrote: > Any instructions on how to use faad? Is it even available for Mac? If you have darwinports installed, you can get it that way. See http://faad2.darwinports.com/ for more info. If you prefer not to use darwinports and have the developer tools installed, you can download the source code from http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html. Once you grab the zip or the .tar.gz file, you can decompress it and follow the instructions in the README.linux file. I just confirmed it comiles just fine in OSX for me. Once you install it, change your convert.conf so that it uses faad instead of mov123 under the "mov mp3 * *" entry. Also, you might need to play with the -r and -x flags in the lame usage flags depending on what byte order faad outputs on your system. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
funkahdafi;312825 Wrote: > @rdefelice: No offense, but could you please open another thread for > this? I am more than sure that your problem is a different one than > mine. I am not even using faad or Linux. > > Thanks Sorry. Didn't mean to hijack your thread, but I do believe our problems are somewhat related. I would maybe try to find a replacement for mov123 on OSX. You might want to give faad 2.6.1 a try. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;312819 Wrote: > A lot of people use faad without any problem so it may be a build issue > rather faad per se. Your version of faad seems to be very old - 2.5 is > the current version. > > You should compare the output of faad between command line and pipe > (i.e binary comapre song.wav and songstd.wav) to comfirm there is a > difference. > > faad song.m4a > > faad -w song.m4a >songstd.wav The only reason I had the old version is because that was actually marked as the current stable version in Gentoo. Version 2.6.1-r1 was masked because it was considered unstable, but I forced the upgrade and it is working great for me so far. Just for the record, I did compare the output as you described and while the file sizes only differed by 1 byte, the contents were very different after the first few bytes. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
rdefelice;312814 Wrote: > I've done a bit more research, and I now believe that faad may be to > blame. I'm running version 2.0-r13, and while playing around with it > on the command line I noticed that it outputs differently depending on > whether you give it the option to write the output to stdout or let it > write the file to disk itself. I was able to get a clean transcode to > mp3 from AAC by running the following commands: > > faad song.m4a > cat song.wav | lame --silent -q 8 -b 192 - song.mp3 > > However, when I run this, I get an mp3 with the aforementioned > background static: > > faad -w song.m4a | lame --silent -q 8 -b 192 - song.mp3 > > So I now believe the problem is introduced when faad is told to output > to stdout rather than to write to a file. Can anyone recommend a > version of faad or an equivalent binary that outputs cleanly to > stdout? > > -r After finding faad to be the culprit, I downloaded and compiled a new version (2.6.1) and it works beautifully even when outputting to stdout. This has solved my problem with the background noise/hiss. I hope this helps those of you who are experiencing the same problem. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
rdefelice;312569 Wrote: > I am also experiencing this issue. I can second that I believe it has > to do with the transcoding of the audio on the server side. In my > setup, I've got two players: a duet receiver and squeezeslave running > on my media center pc that also runs SqueezeCenter. > > Every AAC file I play on the duet receiver sounds fine (no transcoding > on the server), but I hear a hiss when I play it via squeezeslave > (which requires the server to transcode the AAC to MP3 before sending > it to the player). > > I've tried upping the LAME quality setting, but it has no effect. > Anyone have any ideas? > > Specifics on my setup: > SqueezeCenter/squeezeslave: > Gentoo Linux > SqueezeCenter 7.0 > squeezeslave 0.7.5 > LAME 3.97 > > relevant parts of my convert.conf: > > mov mp3 * * > [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q > $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r - - > mov wav * * > [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ > 4>&1 1>/dev/null > mov aif * * > [mov123] $FILE$ I've done a bit more research, and I now believe that faad may be to blame. I'm running version 2.0-r13, and while playing around with it on the command line I noticed that it outputs differently depending on whether you give it the option to write the output to stdout or let it write the file to disk itself. I was able to get a clean transcode to mp3 from AAC by running the following commands: faad song.m4a cat song.wav | lame --silent -q 8 -b 192 - song.mp3 However, when I run this, I get an mp3 with the aforementioned background static: faad -w song.m4a | lame --silent -q 8 -b 192 - song.mp3 So I now believe the problem is introduced when faad is told to output to stdout rather than to write to a file. Can anyone recommend a version of faad or an equivalent binary that outputs cleanly to stdout? -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
I am also experiencing this issue. I can second that I believe it has to do with the transcoding of the audio on the server side. In my setup, I've got two players: a duet receiver and squeezeslave running on my media center pc that also runs SqueezeCenter. Every AAC file I play on the duet receiver sounds fine (no transcoding on the server), but I hear a hiss when I play it via squeezeslave (which requires the server to transcode the AAC to MP3 before sending it to the player). I've tried upping the LAME quality setting, but it has no effect. Anyone have any ideas? Specifics on my setup: SqueezeCenter/squeezeslave: Gentoo Linux SqueezeCenter 7.0 squeezeslave 0.7.5 LAME 3.97 relevant parts of my convert.conf: mov mp3 * * [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r - - mov wav * * [mplayer] -novideo -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/null mov aif * * [mov123] $FILE$ -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] music through headphone jack on duet remote?
Speaking of audio through the controller, maybe one of the developers can chime in here and answer me this... When audio out support is added to the controller, is it expected to play nice with Rhapsody or other DRM'd audio that is decoded in the firmware of the current players? -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47225 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] squeezeslave source availability
Aha! Thanks. I knew it was there somewhere. I've tried aoss while running the java interpreter and it doesn't seeem to make a difference for me. My theory is that since the jre I'm using has native alsa support it is bypassing aoss and interfacing with alsa natively. I might try to get a version of the jre with only oss support and not alsa and try aoss on that one. -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47090 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] squeezeslave source availability
Can anyone tell me if the squeezeslave source is available? I browsed around svn.slimdevices.com and was unable to find it. I've found it to have a few problems that I want to try to correct. >From what I gather, most of the development efforts are going into softsqueeze. I would gladly use softsqueeze in headless mode if I could find a way to get my JRE to play nicely with my dmix device in alsa and not lockup the hardware sound device. thx, -r -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47090 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet - Alarm not working
I forgot to add...the daily alarm seems to work fine when i set it from the web interface, and it shows up correctly in the controller when I look at the settings there. -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44330 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duet - Alarm not working
Just set up my duet last night, and I love it! However, I've noticed that the alarm feature doesn't appear to be working for me. I'll enable and set the time for the main alarm (not the weekday alarms), do something else, then go to the alarm settings, and one of two things will have happened: 1. the alarm time will be set to 00:00 as if I had never set it. or 2. the alarm will show up as disabled. Am I missing something, or is this feature just not finished yet, or am I experiencing some kind of bug? -Ryan Using: SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 17314 - Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31) - EN - utf8 Controller Version: 7.0 r2090 -- rdefelice rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44330 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
