[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
I don't think it recognizes them by IP, it recognizes them by the virtual MAC addess listing on the networking page of the settings. I just started two instances and changes the MAC address slightly in the second instance and Slimserver sees them as two seperate entities. They are both playing out of the same sound card, but I can operate them independently. -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
I'd like to learn more about what you are doing here. Specifically, if changing the virtual mac address to operate multiple SoftSqueezes work for you (which I believe it should) how are you getting them to play out of multiple soundcards? Is it possible to install multiple sound cards on a PC and direct SoftSqueeze output to specific cards? -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
I've just tried out the Macaddress suggestion, and it works fine. I feel a bit silly for not trying it before asking. Thanks for the help. I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box. It supports 10 out channels (5 stereo pairs). Each stereo pair is treated as a separate sound device by Windows. You just configure each softsqueeze instance with one of the stereo pair virtual devices, and away you go - 5 different players on one PC (actually 6, because I can also use the built-in sound card). So that demonstrates both multiple cards and multichannel cards nicely. Be warned though, not all multichannel cards register as muliple devices with the OS. I'm piping to multichannel power amp for a speaker wired multiroom installation (because I don't want amps in each room). One odd thing, for anyone interested - softsqueeze is mislableing one of my output channels - it's swapped my "multichannel" and "WavOut 1/2" device names for some reason, but is fine on all the others. No other media player on my system does this. From: NWP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:13:18 -0700 I'd like to learn more about what you are doing here. Specifically, if changing the virtual mac address to operate multiple SoftSqueezes work for you (which I believe it should) how are you getting them to play out of multiple soundcards? Is it possible to install multiple sound cards on a PC and direct SoftSqueeze output to specific cards? -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _ Need more speed? Get Xtra Broadband @ http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,,202853-1000,00.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
Nathaniel Morgan Wrote: > > I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box. It supports > 10 > out channels (5 stereo pairs). Each stereo pair is treated as a > separate > sound device by Windows. You just configure each softsqueeze instance > with > one of the stereo pair virtual devices, and away you go - 5 different > players on one PC (actually 6, because I can also use the built-in > sound > card). > Wow, that sounds really interesting (and cool). The one question that comes to mind for me immediately is how is the performance? The Softsqueeze player sometimes seems to use a lot of resources, probably because it is written in Java. This would seem like a perfect time to use Squeezeslave, but I don't think you can change the virtual MAC address on that. I also don't think you can choose the output device it uses. -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
Nathaniel Morgan Wrote: > Not too bad for resource use - they seem to take about 7% CPU each > (including any SlimServer overheads - I'm running it on the same box) > on my > Athlon64. Could be media encoding dependant though? > > I might try out alternative players with their own web interfaces > sometime > (MediaPlayerClassic, VLC) if I can find the enthusiasm to integrate the > web > interfaces (I'm only interested in web interface control). > My problem may be that I've been using SoftSqueeze on linux. Perhaps it (or java) is just more of a resource hog than it is on Windows. If you're only at 7% then it doesn't sound like a problem. Nathaniel Morgan Wrote: > > I might try out alternative players with their own web interfaces > sometime > (MediaPlayerClassic, VLC) if I can find the enthusiasm to integrate the > web > interfaces (I'm only interested in web interface control). > I used to use Winamp with the Browseamp plugin before I found Slimserver, but it wasn't near as good and since finding Slimserver there's been no thought of going back. I haven't tried the other web interfaces you mentioned, but it sounds like you have a kick-ass solution as is. I think that develoment of Squeezeslave is currently stalled, but if it picks up again you may want to check that out since you are only interested in web control anyway. -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
NWP Wrote: > This would seem like a perfect time to use Squeezeslave, but I don't > think you can change the virtual MAC address on that. Yes, you can, just start it up with the -m flag, followed by the MAC address. > I also don't think you can choose the output device it uses. It does list all the recognized output devices on startup. There may be a way to bind it to one. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
> You just configure each softsqueeze instance with one of the stereo pair > virtual devices How do you do that? -- bmarston bmarston's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4923 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
Nathaniel, I'm planning an installation much like yours (Windows SlimServer, Delta 1010, multichannel amp). Did you find a good multichannel amp? By the way, are you still running this setup and is it working properly? Claes -- claes claes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
Hello. you can start multiple softsqueeze with the -Dmacadress and -Dserver . but i do not know how to set the audio mixer output ? Alexandre. Mark Lanctot;112123 Wrote: > Yes, you can, just start it up with the -m flag, followed by the MAC > address. > > > > It does list all the recognized output devices on startup. There may > be a way to bind it to one. -- ticalex Alexandre. Work Hard, Render Fast, Retire Young :o) ticalex's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8270 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
FYI - I figured out how to set the audio mixer via command line. Example :- java -Dserver=localhost -Dskins=headless -Dmacaddress=f7:25:9d:78:9f:64 -Daudio.mixer="kX Wave SB0060 5.1 [a000] 8/9" -jar Softsqueeze.jar Les -- martonl martonl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC
Not too bad for resource use - they seem to take about 7% CPU each (including any SlimServer overheads - I'm running it on the same box) on my Athlon64. Could be media encoding dependant though? I might try out alternative players with their own web interfaces sometime (MediaPlayerClassic, VLC) if I can find the enthusiasm to integrate the web interfaces (I'm only interested in web interface control). From: NWP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a single PC Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 00:27:06 -0700 Nathaniel Morgan Wrote: > > I'm using a M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box. It supports > 10 > out channels (5 stereo pairs). Each stereo pair is treated as a > separate > sound device by Windows. You just configure each softsqueeze instance > with > one of the stereo pair virtual devices, and away you go - 5 different > players on one PC (actually 6, because I can also use the built-in > sound > card). > Wow, that sounds really interesting (and cool). The one question that comes to mind for me immediately is how is the performance? The Softsqueeze player sometimes seems to use a lot of resources, probably because it is written in Java. This would seem like a perfect time to use Squeezeslave, but I don't think you can change the virtual MAC address on that. I also don't think you can choose the output device it uses. -- NWP NWP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24157 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _ Need more speed? Get Xtra Broadband @ http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,,202853-1000,00.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
