[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread jeffluckett
Ok ... it seems to have stayed quiet. Obviously there's some bad interaction with MusicMagic here ... how do we resolve? -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread jeffluckett
oops ... spoke too soon. The scanner did indeed refire. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27149 __

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Sully
* jeffluckett shaped the electrons to say... Only MusicMagic. Can you shut that down and kill the scanner and see if it still happens? -D -- "You can usually recover from production flaws...but you can never recover from a bad design". ___ beta mai

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread jeffluckett
Only MusicMagic. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27149 __

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Sully
* jeffluckett shaped the electrons to say... There's an ongoing stream of output to my console window ... is there something particular you need to see? Are you running iTunes, MusicMagic or MoodLogic? -D -- Please refrain from fearing the reaper.

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread jeffluckett
Ok ... I killed the process via Task Manager. Then I ran the scanner as instructed from the command line. However, in that time, the server started up another Scanner process. So that by the time I kicked off mine manually, there are two Scanner.exe processes running. One under my user account,

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: JPEG quality for server-resized images

2006-09-07 Thread JJZolx
Quality and size of the original image will have a lot to do with the end quality of the resized image. I've never noticed a problem with the quality level, but I don't use a 100 pixel width for thumbnails, preferring something like 125 or 130 pixels so that I can actually see the image. Post th

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: UPnP - Windows Media Connect 2.0

2006-09-07 Thread oreillymj
Tnx - will do. -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27103 ___ b

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: JPEG quality for server-resized images

2006-09-07 Thread NigelMSB
NigelMSB;134418 Wrote: > I've attached example images to the forum post for the following quality > numbers (70 & 60 on separate post) Posttooshortpadding +---+ |Filename: 60.jpg |

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: JPEG quality for server-resized images

2006-09-07 Thread NigelMSB
NigelMSB;133754 Wrote: > I'm not sure how to change the quality... ...Any ideas? In think I've found it. By changing line 296 of Slim::Web::Graphics to "$newImageData = $newImage->jpeg (95);" where 95 is the quality, from 0-100. I think GD uses a default quality of 75. I've attached example im

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: UPnP - Windows Media Connect 2.0

2006-09-07 Thread andyg
You can run SlimServer with --d_upnp and/or --d_http_async to see URLs. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27103

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: UPnP - Windows Media Connect 2.0

2006-09-07 Thread oreillymj
> try it from a web browser and see How do you figure out the URL? -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=2710

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: UPnP - Windows Media Connect 2.0

2006-09-07 Thread andyg
oreillymj;134408 Wrote: > Cool now the Slimserver can browse the shares exposed by Windows Media > Connect 2. > > Just a question, how often does Slimserver poll for UPnP servers? > There's no polling in UPnP, we receive multicast packets from all devices on the network. Devices send out anno

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: UPnP - Windows Media Connect 2.0

2006-09-07 Thread oreillymj
Cool now the Slimserver can browse the shares exposed by Windows Media Connect 2. Just a question, how often does Slimserver poll for UPnP servers? Also Slimserver shows up as an "Unknown Device". When you click properties, you see that the Manufacturer info missing. Most of the other fields suc

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Sully
* jeffluckett shaped the electrons to say... My scanner.exe process has been running for about 24 hours or more now. It even restarts after a reboot, or restarting the Slim Service from Services.msc Please kill the scanner.exe from the Task Manager, but not SlimServer. Then open a cmd window,

[SlimDevices: Beta] 6.5b1 - 9424 -Runaway Scanner

2006-09-07 Thread jeffluckett
Greetings, My scanner.exe process has been running for about 24 hours or more now. It even restarts after a reboot, or restarting the Slim Service from Services.msc In the past, a complete rescan has taken about an hour or so. Also, I've added new tracks and they are appearing in my library, yet

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread oreillymj
BTW - I wasn't trying to be rude or negative, just some first impressions. Browsing on the SB iteslf is definitely smoother and faster, my only gripe is memory use. Slim.exe is now sitting at 81,988K in task manager. MySqlD.exe is using 17,192k. That's with a library of 8320 songs. I just though

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Can't play Danish Radio (DR) through SqueezeNetwork anymore

2006-09-07 Thread Thomsen
I'll try that. Thanks! -- Thomsen Thomsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27145

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Can't play Danish Radio (DR) through SqueezeNetwork anymore

2006-09-07 Thread Andy Grundman
On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Thomsen wrote: Hi, Until lately I've been able to play streams from dr.dk when connected to SqueezeNetwork but in the last few days it haven't worked. I don't know if it's the latest firmware or a change in the stream that is causing the problem. I can play it just

[SlimDevices: Beta] Can't play Danish Radio (DR) through SqueezeNetwork anymore

2006-09-07 Thread Thomsen
Hi, Until lately I've been able to play streams from dr.dk when connected to SqueezeNetwork but in the last few days it haven't worked. I don't know if it's the latest firmware or a change in the stream that is causing the problem. I can play it just fine when connected to my local slimserver thr

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread kdf
Quoting JJZolx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: oreillymj;134257 Wrote: The browser UI is nicer although I don't like the playlist commands scrolling with the playlist. I agree. It would make sense to have the playlist commands in the frame above. But hasn't it always been like this? nope. http://bug

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread JJZolx
oreillymj;134257 Wrote: > The browser UI is nicer although I don't like the playlist commands > scrolling with the playlist. I agree. It would make sense to have the playlist commands in the frame above. But hasn't it always been like this? > Also making the same config changes to multiple pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Hi "Craig, James (IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Home / Player Settings for [Living Room | Kitchen | SoftSqueeze] >> > >Nice idea. Probably needs a bug (enhancement) raised for consideration? Not sure about that one - it may be nice for some skins, but not for all? eg. I use Fishbone skin. If I

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 6.5b1 - 9440: Mixer (build 561)

2006-09-07 Thread Andy Grundman
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:23 PM, San wrote: Hi I'm using 6.5b1-9440 on Linux with MusicMagic. It's working beautifully but I've now got a new menu option called "Mixer (build 561)". Is there any documentation on how it works? That is MusicIP's UPnP server. In my experience, their UPnP ser

[SlimDevices: Beta] 6.5b1 - 9440: Mixer (build 561)

2006-09-07 Thread San
Hi I'm using 6.5b1-9440 on Linux with MusicMagic. It's working beautifully but I've now got a new menu option called "Mixer (build 561)". Is there any documentation on how it works? Thanks San -- San San's Profile: htt

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread mrfantasy
I'm running 6.5b on a KuroBox with 128MB RAM and a 266Mhz processor. I had some problems, but only when running Random Play while transcoding, and then fixed them by enabling the option to fork the audio stream process. I don't think it's taking much more RAM (I was using 6.3 with MySQL as well)

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Sully
* Skunk shaped the electrons to say... It may be fat, but it's fast. Browsing seems more fluid, even with my meager 124 album directory. 6.3 used to freeze a lot (but continue playing) and not allow me skip track with remote until the end of the song. That never happens anymore, even when sendin

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread Skunk
It may be fat, but it's fast. Browsing seems more fluid, even with my meager 124 album directory. 6.3 used to freeze a lot (but continue playing) and not allow me skip track with remote until the end of the song. That never happens anymore, even when sending .wav to the player. The new volume con

RE: [SlimDevices: Beta] First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread Craig, James (IT)
> Can I suggest that when you go into the settings for a player, the > breadcrumb trail changes from the current > > Home / Player Settings for Living Room > > into a dropdown > > Home / Player Settings for [Living Room | Kitchen | SoftSqueeze] > Nice idea. Probably needs a bug (enhancement) r

[SlimDevices: Beta] First impressions of FatServer

2006-09-07 Thread oreillymj
I finally decided to go with 6.5B1 to test out the new F/W functionality post F/W 55. My 6.31 install used to consume about 60Mb of RAM with a lot of the unecessary plug-ins disabled. I was kinda expecting 6.51 to be even "Slimmer" in terms of memory usage, since all the Scanner code has been bra

[SlimDevices: Beta] Today's nightly built from r9424 not latest r9471

2006-09-07 Thread NigelMSB
I've tried both the Windows .exe and the .zip for today (2006-09-07), and both are r9424 not the latest r9471. http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/SlimServer_6.5_v2006-09-07/revision.txt shows r9471, so something must have gone wrong in the build process. -- NigelMSB --