Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Just doing some testing this morning. The problem has appeared again, so I'm taking advantage of it! - Direct vs proxied streaming makes no difference, the problem remains. - My Boom can play the Radio 4 stream without issue, but the SB3 keeps rebooting. - I can play the same stream on Softsqueeze 3.9b1 (transcoded to MP3) - I sync'd the Boom with the SB3 and it seemed to work, although the controls on the SC UI and the Boom UI become very slow. I think that might have been SC transcoding to MP3 for Softsqueeze though (seems very CPU intensive). So, dunno if this tells us anything, except that its probably somehthing particular to the SB3. Later, if I can get the problem to re-occur I'll try MCs idea of using specific URLs from the ASX list, and see if that makes a difference. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
bpa;414728 Wrote: ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts of the network between BBC and my PC were getting congested. Although this doesn't seem to affect Chris, I experienced the problemm between 7pm and 9pm as Plusnet limited bandwidth between the Squeezebox device and iPlayer streams at that time. At other times they did not limit this bandwidth. It was Wireshark that eventually illuminated the matter for me. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Just an update... Well, the BBC 96K WMA streams just keep working now! Had them running at different times of day, for long periods of time, with no problems at all. I can only conclude that changing the buffer time and radio time-out fixed the issue. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
I've attached a text file (log.txt). Apologies for the length of the log...not sure what I was looking for. If anyone could take a look, and tell me if they say anything useful, I'd appreciate it. This is with player.source logging set to 'debug'. +---+ |Filename: log.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7241| +---+ -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
The crash shouldn't happen, however if increasing buffered secdons helsp a bit, it sounds like an ISP traffic manipulation where the ISP is rearranging live traffic which is normally a continuous stream of packets and holding the data back and making the streams into big bursts of data some of which is timing out. This is OK for file transfer or webpages but no live audio. The only way to be sure is to log the network traffic using something like Ethereal/Wireshark and send it to SD. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Sorry Chris but I can't see anywhere where you say that the streams work on your SC PC using a normal software music player (I don't know what the equivalnet if Windows Media Player on Linux is). Do they? I've had very strange (and difficult to diagnose) problems with both the SC iPlayer plugin live asx feeds and Listen again asx feeds. I found that between 7 and 9 oclock in the evening all my Listen Again streams stuttered whilst constantly rebuffering. The same stremas played fine at the same time on my software player. With help I tracked this dow to my ISPs attempts to bandwdith shape and th unrecognised identity presented by a SQueezebox (yup, that's what they said!). The ISP, PlusNet cured the problem within two days of being told about it. I have never been able to play the iPlayer live streams on any of my Squeeze devices. The streams just don't appear to start. There seems to be some problem with the format of the BBC playlists (see attached example) which reference a number of individual streams. If I copied a single stream out of the BBC playlist it worked fine. At the beginning of the issue Windows Media Player could not play the BBC iPlayer playlists either... but that appeared to change at some point and now it can (and yes, I have no idea why). It might be worth trying just one of the individual streams from the playlist? Clutching at straws I know especially as you are convinced it's an asx issue (whereas I could play all other asx radio stations with no trouble). MC +---+ |Filename: r4.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7242| +---+ -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Thanks for the replies guys. I'm pretty certain its not bandwidth shaping, I don't believe Virgin bandwidth-shape, but I can check. As for software players, I haven't checked so thats a good point, but its quite difficult to do, as the problem is so erratic. For example, earlier today (1pm UK) I had this occur. Then 30 mins later the streams played fine. I've not had any problem with the Listen Again streams by the way. Also, I don't believe this is limited to BBC feeds. THe WMA ClassicFM stream (as provided via SN) also does the same thing to my SB3. I've opened a ticket with support on this too. Next time the problem occurs, I'll try on software devices too. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
The crash is definitely a bug but this changing of traffic may not be traffic shaping just a artifact of the way the backbone network treats some data flows. IT would be interesting to try a few other tests to see how the problem manifests itself. 1. Disable Windows Media native in Settings/Advanced/Filetypes - this will mean WMA stream ends in SC and is transcoded there into Flac or MP3. I would expect the problem to go away. 2. Make the SC be a proxy so that WMA is decoded by SB3 but TCP datastream from BBC is terminated at SC. In Settings/Player/Audio Set MP3 Streaming method to proxied streaming. I believe the title is misleading and proxying also occurs for WMA streams. An alternative to try would be to sync two hardware players. If the WMA content is being corrupted in some way then the crash will occur otherwise I would expect no crash. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
bpa;414684 Wrote: The crash is definitely a bug but this changing of traffic may not be traffic shaping just a artifact of the way the backbone network treats some data flows. IT would be interesting to try a few other tests to see how the problem manifests itself. 1. Disable Windows Media native in Settings/Advanced/Filetypes - this will mean WMA stream ends in SC and is transcoded there into Flac or MP3. I would expect the problem to go away. 2. Make the SC be a proxy so that WMA is decoded by SB3 but TCP datastream from BBC is terminated at SC. In Settings/Player/Audio Set MP3 Streaming method to proxied streaming. I believe the title is misleading and proxying also occurs for WMA streams. An alternative to try would be to sync two hardware players. If the WMA content is being corrupted in some way then the crash will occur otherwise I would expect no crash. Good ideas, thanks I'll give those a go. I think ModelCitizen might also have a point in this being an issue with ASX rather than WMA directly, although its odd that the WMA stream does actually play even for a few seconds. On the proxying, SC is already set to be a stream proxy. I could try changing it to Direct! I'll try forcing encoding to MP3 as well, as you suggest. As I say, its hard to be certain whats going on, because the problem is so transient - I could get it working by transcoding to MP3, but it doesn't mean the problem is solved. If I could get this problem to occur consistently, that would be a start. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
OK so first of all I tried forcing transcoding WMA to FLAC and to MP3. Neither of those worked. When trying to play on the SB3 or on Softsqueeze (or Winamp for that matter), nothing plays at all. According to the SC UI, a transcoded stream is trying to play though. I tried making it transcode to MP3 on the SB3 as well, with no luck. I also tried pushing the radio station timeout to 30, and that made no difference. Currently, the Radio 4 WMA stream is playing ok on my SB3, with all settings back to default (so the SB3 is decoding the WMA stream). I'll keep an eye out to see when the problems start occuring again, and try seeing of Softsqueeze, etc has problems. I forgot to mention I also have a Boom (had it a couple of days) - R4 has been playing without problem on that, but that doesn't mean anything, its been generally ok on my SB3 too. When the problem occurs, I'll compare to the Boom, and also try syncing players as well, to see what happens there. Thanks again for your continued help, its keeping me sane! -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
If you're using AlienBBC to do the transcode and you are using a new Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu 8.x) then you need a patch for mplayer.sh and also Softsqueeze 3.8 or later when using 7.3. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
bpa;414708 Wrote: If you're using AlienBBC to do the transcode and you are using a new Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu 8.x) then you need a patch for mplayer.sh and also Softsqueeze 3.8 or later when using 7.3. Ah ok, can you tell me more about the patch I need? I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and using Softsqueeze 3.9b1. I assume you mean I need to patch mplayer to make transcoding work in general for any device, not just for Softsqueeze. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
There is a timing issue which seems to happen with new Linux distros. See post #27 in this thread for the updated mplayer.sh. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=399401#post399401 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Aha! Thats done the job. I just tested transcoding the Radio 4 WMA stream to both FLAC and MP3 for SoftSqueeze 3.9 on my Windows PC, and both work. I've asked Virgin Media support about bandwidth shaping, and I'm waiting to hear back from them. At the moment, the streams are working fine. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts of the network between BBC and my PC were getting congested. The same sort of issue might be happening with Virgin - for example, at certain times of the day, some of their network may be getting congested and the backbone switches start dropping data packets and so are relying on BBC to resend the dropped data - this could cause a stream to stop. There are many other scenarios which are not bandwidth shaping but just traffic management. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
bpa;414728 Wrote: ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts of the network between BBC and my PC were getting congested. The same sort of issue might be happening with Virgin - for example, at certain times of the day, some of their network may be getting congested and the backbone switches start dropping data packets and so are relying on BBC to resend the dropped data - this could cause a stream to stop. There are many other scenarios which are not bandwidth shaping but just traffic management. Absolutely, I agree, there are many potential causes. I've found however the real audio streams to be generally very reliable (and certainly don't cause my SB3 to reboot when they stop or stutter). I had a reply back from Virgin, who confirmed that STM (Subscriber Traffic Management) is the only form of purposeful bandwidth control they utilise. Simply, they reduce your bandwidth (up and down) by 75% for up to 5 hours if you exceed the daily download or upload quota, something I don't go anywhere near. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
chris.mason;414771 Wrote: I've found however the real audio streams to be generally very reliable (and certainly don't cause my SB3 to reboot when they stop or stutter). As RealAudio isn't handled natively by any of the hardware players, any issues are going to be on the server transcoding them to something the SB3 can handle. So a stream might kill mplayer or although a very remote posability, SqueezeCenter. It's not going to efect an SB. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
You probably find the RealAudio streams as being reliable as the stream is terminated in the PC which has bigger buffers etc. compared to WMA streams terminated in the SB3. The suggested test which make SC proxy for WMA stream was a test to see if termination of WMA stream in PC vs SB3 makes a difference. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Hm...I didn't get to do more testing until this morning. The changes I made to SC were as follows: Radio Station Buffer Seconds : 4 (was 3) Radio Station Timeout : 12 (was 10) And I set the logging as suggested.. Now the 96k Radio 4 WMA stream is running without problem! I wonder if there is something happening at the quantum level here...as soon as I start observing whats going on (through logging), it starts working ;-). I'll try putting those settings back to default and see what happens too. Ive had this happen before, where the BBC Radio WMA streams start working, when I've changed nothing, thats one thing that makes this issue so frustrating. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
One user found that their BBC WMA problems were due to their ISP traffic shaping. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Yeah I saw that mentioned before. I don't believe that is the case for me. I'm on Virgin Broadband. Virgin don't use traffic shaping, they tend to use a much more blunt instrument - STM (Subscriber Traffic Management, they call it). They basically reduced your bandwidth for a period of time if you exceed download limits. I rarely go anywhere near those limits as it is. I guess whats annoying is that my SB3 should be behaving in the way it is. If it gets some dodgy data in a stream, I don't expect it to throw a paddy and crash, I would expect it to handle the issue more gracefully. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
OK time to bump this thread! I just got myself a Boom. It can play BBC WMA streams without any problem. However, those sames streams still cause my SB3 to hang and reboot. This is quite frustrating. I'm not sure if it is just the BBC streams or WMA in general. I'd really appreciate some help: o What logging options should I switch on to capture the most useful information? o Is anybody else seeing the same issue? o What other WMA streams would you suggest I try (none-BBC), that might cause issues? o Why in fact is my SB3 rebooting? For background information, my setup is: Version: 7.3.3 - 25411 @ Mon Mar 9 03:21:08 PDT 2009 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: i686-linux Perl Version: 5.10.0 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 Boom: firmware 45 SB3: firmware 125 I have AlienBBC installed, so I have mplayer installed and configured under file types, hence for WMA I have: WMA - FLAC : Disabled WMA - MP3 : mplayer.sh/lame WMA - WAV : Disabled WMA - WMA : Native I've tried disabling native WMA, to force conversion to another format, but nothing happens. Any help really appreciated! Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
If you are using AlienBBC menus to play the BBC streams then you are playing the RealAudio format not WMA. What do you means by nothing happens - for example - doesn't start - starts but no audio - no change from previous settings -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Nope, not playing RealAudio...I'm specifically playing the BBC WMA streams. I'm using AlienBBC to listen to the RealAudio streams, because they work. I'd prefer to listen to the higher-bitrate WMA audio. I'm using the BBCiplayer pluging to access the live WMA streams. I know this is nothing to do with the iPLayer plugin by the way. I've tried directly playing the WMA streams with the same result. Interestingly, I have no problem listening to Listen Again streams, just live audio. By nothing happens, I mean that having forced transcoding from WMA to FLAC for example (for the filetypes setting), when I go to play the stream, I get the connecting message on the SB3 display, then...nothing. No sound, no indication of a problem. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
By nothing happens, I mean that having forced transcoding from WMA to FLAC for example (for the filetypes setting), when I go to play the stream, I get the connecting message on the SB3 display, then...nothing. No sound, no indication of a problem. Your settings have disabled WMA-Flac which means disabling native WMA will result in WMA-MP3. Conecting followed by nothing usually means either a timeout or a problem in the mplayer/lame pipeline. Listen Again streams start within 1-2 sec of making the request. With mplayer transcoding, Live streams could take about 6-10 secs to start, more if there are choices for URLs. If your network station timeout is set to less than 10 then this couildbe one issue. To debug this situation use Settings/Advanced/Logging and set player.source to INFO -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
bpa;414023 Wrote: Your settings have disabled WMA-Flac which means disabling native WMA will result in WMA-MP3. Conecting followed by nothing usually means either a timeout or a problem in the mplayer/lame pipeline. Listen Again streams start within 1-2 sec of making the request. With mplayer transcoding, Live streams could take about 6-10 secs to start, more if there are choices for URLs. If your network station timeout is set to less than 10 then this couildbe one issue. To debug this situation use Settings/Advanced/Logging and set player.source to INFO Sorry,should have clarified - I did have WMA - FLAC enabled to test transcoding to FLAC on the SB3, but then disabled it (I like generally to have things working natively or transcoding to MP3 for remote streaming). Thanks for the advice on logging, I'll see what that shows. Also I'll check the timeout and see if that makes a difference (I won't be able to look into this till later, as I'm at work). -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
mobileadam;407424 Wrote: Hi Chris, Any joy with your testing? Adam Hi Adam, No luck unfortunately, same thing happens. I don't have enough time to spend really digging into this at the moment unfortunately. Its very frustrating - internet radio streams can be unreliable of course, but I really don't expect it to crash my SB or SC. I've gone back to using AlienBBC which works reliably for me, and avoided WMA streams. I don't think its just the BBC WMA streams that cause the problem. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Talk to your ISP and see if they do any bandwidth shaping or other funny network stuff. ModelCitizen had very specific Squeezebox BBC WMA problem with PlusNet see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=405306postcount=233 You should read a few posts back and forward to get the full story. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
I'm using VirginMedia cable. They don't do bandwidth shaping per se - their approach is Subscriber Traffic Monitoring, which is much more a blunt instrument. They basically cut your bandwidth if you exceed certain download/upload limits (which I rarely do). Perhaps Virgin are doing something though.. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Hi Chris, Any joy with your testing? I tried to switch on the radio this morning (Radio 1) and found that my kitchen receiver was doing its old trick of 'rebooting' after 5 to 10 seconds of playback. Rather then spending the usual hours of checking network quality etc I just logged into SqueezeNetwork and noticed that my Duet controller was listed (I thought I had deleted it). Anyway, I deleted it from the web UI and then restarted the stream and no further reboots today!!! related? maybe? Over the weekend I was getting entries in the log about trying to get players from SN etc but I have disabled the sync option so not sure why it is still doing that. Adam -- mobileadam mobileadam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Hi Chris, I'm probably sending you down the wrong path again but I awoke this morning to find one of my receivers constantly 'rebooting' when trying to listen to a radio 1 live stream. I spent lots of time trying to solve it (about 2 hours) and now suddenly it is working again. Reviewing my changes (I tried to make only one change / test at a time) it only started to work after I disabled the SqueezeNetwork integration in SC. I then tried to reproduce the problem by re-enabling the option but is hasn't reoccured!!! So is this just a coincidence? So, it was working for about two weeks, then failed again this morning, I must have seen reboots over 15 times during the two hours of trying to fix it. If it occurs again then I guess I can rule out my current thinking about the SN integration (although I do find it interesting that this is along the similiar lines to my previous testing the last time it happened). Adam -- mobileadam mobileadam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Hi Adam, Thanks for the follow up. What you say is very interesting, because I was wondering about the same thing. I noticed lots of sync requests, and occasional sync errors (possibly meaningless) in the server log, and I've tried turning off SN syncing/integration. I'm really unclear what that is for anyway - that whole area is something which is poorly defined. I rarely use SN anyway (knowingly at least!). I'll check my sync settings again, and see what results I get with it switched off. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Hi Chris, Other things that were occuring this morning which don't help with your problem at all include my two receivers not playing the same radio stream in sync regardless of how I told them to syncronise with each other. Obviously my problematic receiver would shortly reboot before reconnecting occasionally to radio stream. Now that everything is working again they are perfectly in sync. I have also deleted my two players from the SN site and they don't automatically reappear now which shows that the option on SC is working as expected. -- mobileadam mobileadam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
All yesterday, I had the Radio 2 and Radio 4 WMA streams playing flawlessly. Just now, I start the Radio 2 stream, and within 2 seconds, my SB3 froze and had to reboot. This is beginning to get on my nerves. Can anyone explain why/how a WMA stream is causing this to happen? I understand perfectly well how unreliable streaming radio can be, but what I don't expect to happen is it to cause my SB3 to reboot. Is any one else seeing these problems? Can any one give me some hints on which logging to switch on and what specifically to look for that might give a clue? TIA. Chris. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
chris.mason;403631 Wrote: (I posted this as a reply to another thread on listening to BBC Radio, but I don't think it was entirely appropriate there - apologies for the multi-posting). I don't believe this is a plug-in issue, but a problem with the WMA feeds from the BBC. I'm based in the UK, so should have no problem getting the feeds (from a legal perspective anyway). I'm running SC7.3.3 on Ubuntu 8.10, with a wireless SB3. (Version: 7.3.3 - 25156 @ Wed Feb 25 03:12:29 PST 2009) I've found that the live AlienBBC streams for Radio 2 and 4 to be reliable. For BBC iPlayer, I've given up trying to listen to the feeds. All the live feeds consistently cause my SB3 to crash and reboot. The feeds play for about 30 seconds (I'm guessing the buffer size) then it all stops. I'd love to listen to these feeds for the higher bit-rate. I don't believe this is a BBC iPlayer plugin issue. I have copied the high bit rate WMA URL into Tune in URL and I get the same issue. Through the More Radio.. menu, I can play the 65Kbit WMA streams without problem on the whole, certainly they don't cause my SB3 to reboot. Anybody else experienced this problem of the 96k streams causing the SB3 to reboot or can explain what might cause the problem? I can understand that streams are not always perfect, you get rebuffering, stuttering and so on, but I don't expect a stream to cause my SB3 to reboot. Here are the URLs I've been using: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/wm_asx/aod/radio2.asx http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx Any help would be much appreciated! TIA Chris. I tested these urls using SC 7.4-25345 on ubuntu 8.04 and they played without interruption on my SB3, Duet and Boom. Sorry, I don't have a 7.3.3 version to test them on. The url's however would not verify when I tried to add them to my Squeezenetwork favorites, but I could play them from an opml file of favorites which I use on Squeezenetwork. Hope this info helps. -- Ramage P2 266MHz, ubuntu server 8.10 SC 7.4~25258 AMD64x2 ubuntu 8.04, SC 7.4~25345 Players: Classic, Duet, Boom, Controller Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Thanks Ramage. I'm hesitant to go to 7.4 at the moment, still getting to grips with 7.3.3. Right now I'm playing the Radio 2 feed from the above URL, and its working fine. I've switched a bunch of debugging on maybe it knows I'm watching ;-) The other thing I've done is switched from direct streaming to proxied. Dunno if that would make a difference though. This is an excerpt from my logs that I thought my give a clue to this issues (could mean nothing though). Anyone care to comment? OutputUnderrun - is that a bad thing? [09-03-06 10:25:00.0254] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_eventAction (269) 00:04:20:06:9d:99: StatusHeartbeat in PLAYING-STREAMING - Slim::Player::StreamingController::_CheckSync [09-03-06 10:25:00.8438] Slim::Player::StreamingController::playerOutputUnderrun (1711) 00:04:20:06:9d:99: decoder: 96 / output: 0 [09-03-06 10:25:00.8445] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_eventAction (269) 00:04:20:06:9d:99: OutputUnderrun in PLAYING-STREAMING - Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Rebuffer [09-03-06 10:25:00.8451] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setPlayingState (1854) new playing state BUFFERING [09-03-06 10:25:00.8496] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_eventAction (301) 00:04:20:06:9d:99: OutputUnderrun - new state BUFFERING-STREAMING [09-03-06 10:25:00.8702] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_eventAction (269) 00:04:20:06:9d:99: StatusHeartbeat in BUFFERING-STREAMING - Slim::Player::StreamingController::_NoOp -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
The BBC live streams are WMA. Proxied only relates to MP3 streams. To get the server to decode the stream change under FileTypes Windows Media native to disabled. If you are not running Windows you will need to install some server WMA decode support There have been a few other reports of other WMA stations causing reboot of Boom and SB3. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
So you're saying if I wanted to transcode WMA to MP3 to get proxied streaming, I should disable WMA native decoding? I'm running on Ubuntu, and have AlienBBC installed (and consequently mplayer) so that wouldn't be a problem. I'll give that a go and see what difference it makes. -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot
Actually we need to change the wording of the proxied streaming option. It now works for all stream types. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
