mbonsack Wrote:
> Update: This podcast plays fine in Juice, as do other podcasts from
> Slim's default picks. However, I cannot get any podcasts to play in
> SB2/softsqueeze...
>
Turns out most of them do play OK in SB2, just not in softsqueeze.
Looks like I might have run into
http://bugs.
>
> AlienBBC - Playing: Chris Evans - The Best Bits
>
No wonder it was silent.
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Yup. Bug confirmed. Pause causes a total lock-up until the process
uses up all the memory on the PC then the kernel kills the offending
process. Then the init-script restarts the server and all is back to
normal.
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Neil Sleightholm Wrote:
> (...) Does the 45 minute problem happen every time?
I haven't actually gotten round to retrying the station - I've been
moving the server to a new location, which unfortunately is not going
to work out, so I'll have to move it yet again. When I get the chance
I'll try it
I have finished a preliminary (read: Alpha-quality) plugin that
allows direct playback of albums, tracks and artists via entering
their database ID number on the player with a remote.
I think this will be most useful for people with large and
mostly unchanging music collections. I often find myse
This may be my reason for trying to learn Perl.
Just so you know, I use Linux as well. Ubuntu to be exact. And just
today I saw that there is a beta release for MMM that will work without
requiring Java or X. I haven't tried it yet, but it's a much desired
feature. Currently it's the only r
GoCubs Wrote:
> Wow! Everyone has an opinion today. :) I like the feedback...
>
> As for barometric pressure display... where should I have it
> displayed!?!?!? (there's only so much screen space!!!).
>
> -Greg
A couple of choices come to mind:
1. Allow the user to select two of wind spe
Triode, Neil & everyone who helped THANK YOU.
The enabling of the socketwrapper in Zonealarm made the whole thing
work! I suspect that was the problem all the long. Hopefully this
thread will help a few other people with similar problems. Along the
way I have found the network tester and l
You will need slimserver, mplayer and socketwrapper to be able to make
network connections [i.e. be allowed by the firewall]
If you want to lame encode, then dissable rtsp->flc and rtsp->wav in
the "server settings - file types" web page.
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The slimserver parser for asx files will extract all streams within the
asx metafile. For these stations it includes the ident stream too. I
am not sure there is an easy way to avoid this as the slimserver parser
needs to be general purpose. Best way is to press forward to skip to
the actual st
Neil,
I do run ZoneAlarm and considered a firewall problem. I've enabled the
mplayer program to pass through and slim.exe. The mplayer test does get
audio to the PC speakers. Any ideas if the AlienBBC calls another
program which might be blocked?
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I think the 2 entries is a problem within the SlimServer but I haven't
been able to figure out what yet.
I have to admit to not playing more than a few seconds of any of the
new streams. Does the 45 minute problem happen every time?
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No, I don't think I need any information, I think it happens every
single time. I was keeping it a secret - I didn't think I'd get away
with being the only one that noticed it! It would be good if you could
confirm that crashes it for you, though.
I'll post when I've got an updated version that f
This is a bug in SoftSqueeze, I have raised a bug for this:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2593
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Wow! Everyone has an opinion today. :) I like the feedback...
On the backend I like to keep each group of data
(NFL/MLB/forecasts,etc) as a separate arrays. This keeps it clean in
case some data cannot be refreshed since the data is coming from
separate web pages. For now I added another arra
Oss, looking at the trace it tries to connect to the Radio1 station but
then your RSS feed kicks in. I'm not sure if it is relavent but this
reports "Couldn't resolve IP address for: news.bbc.co.uk" - is it
possible that you have a firewall that is blocking the Radio1 stream?
For some reason pipi
Hi Max,
Kinda sorted it out, starts up automatically now (thanks Tom & Koen)
number displays beautifuly on the sb, but alas number unknown. Doesnt seem
to be reading the contacts file. reads it if I call cid.pl directly from
the command line. Seems like it might be a rights thing so given
slimjim Wrote:
> I have couple of suggestions: ...
>
> Ken
And here's another: I'd like to see a choice to include barometric
pressure in inches or mb along with the tendency (a simple R for
rising, F for falling, and S for steady), as this would supply the last
remaining component of standal
GoCubs wrote:
I was actually debating this option instead of having the top line
cycle. But if I go this route, I'm wondering how the interval options
should work.
Perhaps just a single queue instead with "item"/"secs to display" pairs.
The code walks through the queue and starts from the
Doh! I'd completely forgotten that Redhat uses runlevel 5 for graphical
startups. I'll change my docs accordingly.
waldy: Let me know if this sorts you out.
Thanks,
Max
koen Wrote:
> The numbers after T3 (23 in this case) denote in which runlevel you want
> the mgetty to run. As runlevel 5
I also like Steve's suggestion to have the weather report on the second
line so that it is readable across the room.
Ken
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Keith,
What version of Mplayer are you running and what OS ?
When you say you loaded 2005-11-14 - what are you referring to
Slimserver or Mplayer ?
It is likely that you have less problem with LW because it is less in
demand and less problems with congestion but the problem will happen
given ti
That may be. I might have hit pause instead of play. That would
explain why I wasn't able to reproduce. I will try that tonight and
see. Do you need any debug info?
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kitschcamp Wrote:
> I'm having issues, but I'd not installed it before.
>
> When playing Radio 4 FM it plays fine for about 20 minutes, then goes
> in "random gibberish" mode where it seems to be leaping backwards and
> forwards through the stream, so you hear a second of one chunk, then a
> sec
I've now loaded slim.exe with the three switches:
C:\Documents and Settings\Oss>"C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe" --d_
plugin --d_source --d_remotestream
The output goes quite quickly but I've taken the bit from when I asked
for Raido1 Chris Moyles show:
2005-11-21 17:54:54.3463 00:
Steve Baumgarten Wrote:
>
> Would it be possible (as an option) to make the weather reports work
> just like the time and game score displays? So no top line in that
> case,
> just something else to alternate: current time, tonight's weather,
> tomorrow's weather, game scores, etc. That would
Update: This podcast plays fine in Juice, as do other podcasts from
Slim's default picks. However, I cannot get any podcasts to play in
SB2/softsqueeze. For the church podcast, I get the unknown encoding
error noted above. For the others, here's what happens:
1. Select the appropriate podcas
If you want reassurance - with -verbose 1 on, if you get a packet lost
message and audio is not garbled, then patch is working. Just one
packet lost will result in garbled audio.
The packet are dropped probably due to network congestion so it is
worse at peak times - on r4 it seems to be arou
Up to 70 mins now. I've heard a few oddities, but it's corrected itself
within a few seconds; I guess that's what was tripping it up before.
:)
The patch file mentioned above in post 76 was the one that did it, and
compiled using the following options:
./configure --language=all --disable-mencod
32 minutes and counting :)
That's 10 more than it's ever managed before - it's looking promising!
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Thanks for the suggestions. Some time ago there was discussion on how
the plugin should function for upcoming/active/final game information
display. Everyone has their opinion and preference, and ultimately the
current behavior/options were settled upon. If there is a common
consenus to add thi
Solving this "garbled audio" bug has been a long process and it has been
mainly Windows users testing so most comments were directed at them.
If you have not changed demux_real.c in libmpdemux directory then
-verbose 1 will not do anything significant.
Post #76 in the thread below has two files
bpa Wrote:
> I'm running SuSe 9.3 and the patches were initially tested on this
> system so I'm surprised.
>
> Is it possible that after compiling Mplayer you didn't install the
> newly patched version ? In which case Mplayer.sh is picking up the
> original Mplayer and not the patch one.
>
It
slimjim Wrote:
> I have couple of suggestions: One is control of final score display.
> Cycling the final scores seem too often and gets old fast. I would
> rather have it show up once every M minutes and stop displaying after H
> hours. It would be nice to be able to recall final scores by u
I'm running SuSe 9.3 and the patches were initially tested on this
system so I'm surprised.
Is it possible that after compiling Mplayer you didn't install the
newly patched version ? In which case Mplayer.sh is picking up the
original Mplayer and not the patch one.
The Mplayer "-verbose 1" will
Phil,
I cannot reproduce this!
Does it crash every time you enter the RadioPlaylist menu?
What appears in the Plugin settings section in the web UI?
James
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The numbers after T3 (23 in this case) denote in which runlevel you want
the mgetty to run. As runlevel 5 is the default one (it launches the
login manager xdm on the line just below) mgetty won't get started.
What Tom is suggesting will work because he's asking for mgetty to get
started in runl
bpa Wrote:
> This sounds like the "garbled" audio problem which is known to occur
> with standard Mplayer and "live" BBC streams.
> What version of Mplayer and OS are you using ?
>
I'm using v1.0pre7try2 on SuSE Linux 10.0 fully patched. Downloaded on
Saturday and compiled using the instructions
This sounds like the "garbled" audio problem which is known to occur
with standard Mplayer and "live" BBC streams.
What version of Mplayer and OS are you using ?
If you are running XP please try using a patched version of Mplayer
from Neil's site
http://www.x2systems.com/alienbbc/mplayer.html
Try
Yesterday I upgraded to AlienBBC v1.0 (thanks for this; it's a great
plugin!). The BBC podcasts worked well using my SB2. Today I'm using
SoftSqueeze 2.2, and none of the BBC podcasts are working (silence and
0% buffer)
All I see in the log (with d_plugin) is:
2005-11-21 13:54:09.7176 AlienBB
I'm having issues, but I'd not installed it before.
When playing Radio 4 FM it plays fine for about 20 minutes, then goes
in "random gibberish" mode where it seems to be leaping backwards and
forwards through the stream, so you hear a second of one chunk, then a
second from someother period in th
waldy Wrote:
> I put T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -n 2 -s 57600 ttyS1 in inittab file
> then telinit -q the incoming calls are ignored and the debug file is not
> updated.Waldy,
I think I was having a similar problem when I first was setting up Max
great callerid plugin. I was installing it o
Hi Chaps
I've upgraded at the weekend and seem to experiencing the same issue as
here. I've tried the debug command but when it's running Slimserver
won't startup and seems to hang whilst trying to start??
Any info would be usefull.
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Thanks for the apt-get tips.
Does this do the 'full' install as detailed in the individual steps at
the start of the thread (minus live555 I assume?), or are extra bits
needed to get mplayer up and running ? Does everything get put in the
right directory by the apt-get install ?
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> Delete the Supertramp?
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hickinbottoms Wrote:
> I have seen something like that ("greatest hits" was where I saw the
> problem, but it's the same thing I'm sure), which I'm going to try to
> track down.
>
> Which version of SlimServer are you using - 6.5 or 6.2.x?
SlimServer Version: 6.2.1 - 5194 - Windows Server 2003
Yes, I do agree.
As you saw my original intention was to put the discovery setting under
'record to profile' in the command section.
Then I found out that changing discovery mode works the same as changing
stations behind the scenes so I would have ended up writing loads of
redundant code!
Now it
Is the problem after a wipe & scan or just a rescan?
I wonder if the problem is that the plugin references the playlists by
database id and these are changing...
James
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Thanks Phil,
I hope that is enough to find the problem.
James
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Hi Max,
Doesnt write a log file at all (I've set a the debug level) so I guess its
being ignored in inittab (if I run it in a shell it puts down a debug file.)
Tried moving it up a line removing & adding a line feed at the end but no
joy.
here's the end of inittab
# Run gettys in standard ru
I'm afraid that I think that's beyond me. I don't use MusicMagic (my
server is Linux), and I've never actually seen it in use.
If anyone has any ideas on how to add it I'd gladly include it, though.
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Yes, I can reproduce it at will.
Confirmed - for 6.5. InfoFormat moved to a new module. Consider 6.5 to be
experimental ;-).
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I´d like to remove the advertising between some songs ( i thought it was
called "boundaries" , but my english is not quite good , sorry for the
inconvenience ).
I´ve been using a stream ripper for Winamp ( very useful to listen some
songs on the car´s CD or MP3 ) and i´ve seen that it can detect
Milhouse Wrote:
>
> Any ideas?
Delete the Supertramp?
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I have seen something like that ("greatest hits" was where I saw the
problem, but it's the same thing I'm sure), which I'm going to try to
track down.
Which version of SlimServer are you using - 6.5 or 6.2.x?
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