Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC SUCKS Big Time!

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:17:27 -0800, gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm not (yet?) a user of this plugin, but I just felt like expressing my gratitude to all these people that spend their time to donate something freely to the community. Absolutely. I won't judge the original poster,

Re: [slim] Re: Great Experience with Audioengine Speakers

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:28:14 -0800, werock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for the tip - am currently looking for a small set of powered speakers for the bedroom, so I can setup an SB3 there as well. BTW, the brackets around your link screw it up. http://www.audioengineusa.com/ I've

Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC SUCKS Big Time!

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:46:19 -0800, danco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Many of the Internet Radio options (e.g. Shoutcast, Radio365, and, of course, Squeezenetwork) are part of SlimServer. The problem with the BBC stations is that they need mplayer and, because of licencing issues, I think

Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC SUCKS Big Time!

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:55:00 -0800, danco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have only istalled for the Mac, but Linux should be easier. What difficulties did you have? I'm probably guilty of giving up to quickly. Does mplayer work? Yes, at least I use mplayer for playing video all the time.

Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC SUCKS Big Time!

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:55:00 -0800, danco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have only istalled for the Mac, but Linux should be easier. What difficulties did you have? I'm probably guilty of giving up to quickly. Does mplayer work? Yes, at least I use mplayer for playing video all the time.

Re: [slim] Re: Alien BBC SUCKS Big Time!

2006-03-28 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:09:48 -0800, danco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And you did remember to install the relevant audio codecs (not needed for the latest mplayer, though) in the right place? I'm not entirely sure what I did and where things started failing, I forgot to remember. :( I'm

Re: [slim] Re: What the Squeezebox needs IMHO

2006-03-27 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:24:02 -0800, dangerous_dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can see pros and cons for web interface Vs standalone GUI. But personally, and i thinmk most people here agree, the best thing about using a web interface is the ability to access it via web enabled device, be that

Re: [slim] Re: What the Squeezebox needs IMHO

2006-03-27 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:48:02 -0800, NWP [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Peter van der Landen Wrote: When I fire up IE instead, I'm annoyed by the constant clicking that accompanies the loading of a new page. (anyone know how to turn this off selectively?) Go into sounds and remove

Re: [slim] Re: SB3/media servers - way of the future?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:34:56 -0800, Kevin O. Lepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On the video side, everyone seems to talk about the Slingbox, which also seems to appeal to the geeks. Or check out Orb. And MythTV. :-) Well, there's an interesting way to merge MythTV, thin clients *and* the

[slim] What the Squeezebox needs IMHO

2006-03-26 Thread Peter van der Landen
I received my 2 SB3's last week and I must say I'm quite pleased. The Squeezeboxes are finally starting to look as expensive as they are and the display is a huge functional improvement since I'm finally able to read it from my couch. My optometrist was making a fortune out of me ;). My non-nerd

Re: [slim] Re: My dream: SB in my car

2006-03-16 Thread Peter van der Landen
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:53:12 -0800, EnochLight [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My solution to this - for now anyway - is to use my 6o GB iPod with a head unit in my car that actually docks with it, so the menu/interface is controllable through the head unit. I have an Alpine for that - works like

Re: [slim] Re: New Videobox version 0.6.2

2006-02-14 Thread Peter van der Landen
I'm afraid it's more of a bug in Windows Media Player or perhaps even in the ActiveX control. Videobox basically just does this: $wmplayer = Wx::ActiveX::WMPlayer-new( $this , -1 , wxDefaultPosition , wxDefaultSize ); $wmplayer-PropSet(FileName,/movie.mpg) ; $wmplayer-Play; That works