Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Running multiple instances of softsqueeze

2007-03-20 Thread awy
I do something like this, also on Linux (FC4). I'm at work now so cannot post all the details, but here is an outline of how I do it. I have created accounts: sound1, sound2, Each of these gets a home directory in which the .java/.userPrefs hierarchy exists and is where you find the per-inst

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> Given what you have, and the availability of a free alpha version of > Apollo; how hard is it to create a standalone desktop app? No need for Apollo or any other heavy-weight tool. Save the following lines to "slimfx.js" and double-click it: var oIE = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Appli

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread Phil Meyer
>No need for Apollo or any other heavy-weight tool. Save the following >lines to "slimfx.js" and double-click it: > >var oIE = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application"); >oIE.StatusBar = 0; >oIE.ToolBar = 0; >oIE.Navigate2("http://yourserver:9000/slimfx/";); >oIE.Visible = 1; > You can al

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread carp
If one does not select the biggest font size, the date is shown above the time. Unfortunately, the date is displayed in english, while my environment is german. Any chance to display the date in german, too? -- carp Carsten -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> Any chance to display the date in german, too? This should be configurable from the server settings page. I'm not sure where exactly, but either Formatting or in the DateTime screensaver settings. -- Michael - http://www.her

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread Nikhil
hmmm ... I was thinking more cross platform...but I suppose there must be equivalent combinations of ActiveX & IE for other OSes or even a cross platform one that can be used that involves the Mozilla engine? -- Nikhil Nik

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread carp
Michael Herger;188991 Wrote: > This should be configurable from the server settings page. I'm not sure > where exactly, but either Formatting or in the DateTime screensaver > settings. Okay, I checked both places, but the date is still displayed in English - I found no setting to explicitly tell

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> Okay, I checked both places, but the date is still displayed in English > - I found no setting to explicitly tell Slimserver to display the date > in German (although the language of Slimserver is set to German > ("Deutsch")). Wherefrom does Slimserver get the names of the weekdays? Oh, yes, tha

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> hmmm ... I was thinking more cross platform...but I suppose there must > be equivalent combinations of ActiveX & IE for other OSes or even a > cross platform one that can be used that involves the Mozilla engine? I don't see the point of creating a cross platform wrapper application if all you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze question: connection problem

2007-03-20 Thread curly
I did the same as BigTony ie. changed 'Preferences > Skin > Display Style (drop down list) from Transporter to any other option or run Softsqueeze headless. That's it. This is with Softsqueeze3.3 on win and ubuntu (from the dl'ed zip) and Slimserver on Ubuntu P4, 1gig ram AND another Slimserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread carp
You are right, it is the Ubuntu flavour of Linux that my Slimserver runs with. Now I'll have to see where I have to make the modification you suggested. -- carp Carsten carp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread peterw
There's a bugzilla feature request ticket you might vote for: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2726 -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
When my mac built mplayer it was in a directory called mplayersrc. This directory contains a folder (which I think is also a directory) called MPlayer-1.0pre8 In the 2nd named location I found a dark grey rectangular thing called mplayer. I have now moved this to Usr/local/bin where an identical

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread carp
> There's a bugzilla feature request ticket you might vote for: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2726 Thanks for this information! Now I voted for it, being the first one to vote for it. Let's see if it helps! -- carp Carsten --

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2007-03-20 Thread GoCubs
Xhorder;188431 Wrote: > Great News! Has anyone determined if the title info can be gotten from > the stream data? That would be great... Well... for fun I tried disabling the plugin's title processing (which uses those web sites) to see if the player would pick up the title info... It didn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
I keep trying to think what I can be doing wrong. I have two user profiles on my mac, one is called John Manuel and is the Administrator's profile. The other is called Visitor. In the visitor profile is itunes, slimerserver and where I put the mplayer. I don't use the John Manuel profile. However

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread bpa
I'm not sure about the last post and as I said before I don't have an Apple system. However I know that Apple seemed to have changed the search path between versions of OSX and I think in your version /usr/local/bin may NOT be on the search path. To test this out - put the mplayer file in /us

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread gsamsa
Nikhil;188950 Wrote: > > Given what you have, and the availability of a free alpha version of > Apollo; how hard is it to create a standalone desktop app? I think it would be relatively trivial...you'd need a way of specifying which server to connect to, but other than that, there'd be hardly a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
Great. That works. What next? -- js85 js85's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10559 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33379 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] TimeSpeller screensaver

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> There's a bugzilla feature request ticket you might vote for: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2726 I've uploaded patches for 6.5.2 and trunk. Please give them a try and add any comment to the bug. -- Michael - ht

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread bpa
Try out AlienBBC and see if it plays. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33379 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread danco
So mplayer is working ok. And AlienBBC isn't? I'm not quite clear what you mean by "profile", presumably you mean "account". And I'm really unclear what you mean by "In the visitor profile is itunes, slimerserver and where I put the mplayer". Where is mplayer? And where is lame? mplayer and la

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce] SlimCD 1.85 - The Return ofAlienBBC!

2007-03-20 Thread Ron F .
Thanks Michael, I think the addition to bootlocal.sh has taken care of the problem, and I got my a my first bath in the Linux OS too. I like it! My next step will be to scan my 8,000 track music library running SlimCD on my USB pen drive. Before I do this, I am wondering where the database and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
Danco can I refer you to post 13 in this thread -- js85 js85's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10559 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33379

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
With mplayer in usr/bin it plays to the radio4 command but i still dont hear it? -- js85 js85's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10559 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread bpa
You need to recap the situation 1. What RTSP boxes are checked in Filetypes 2. When you select Radio4 from AlienBBC the elapsed time increments but no sound and viusaliser doesn't move - correct ? 3. What player are you using SoftSqueeze or SB3 ? -- bpa

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC Podcast No Programmes Found

2007-03-20 Thread capellow
Have been running Slimserver 6.5.1 & AlienBBC 1.06 for a while, and originally the AlienBBC Radio programmes and Podcast was fully working. Around 2 weeks or so ago, I noticed that the AlienBBC-Podcast menu gave the error message "No Programmes Found". The radio programmes are working fine for al

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC Podcast No Programmes Found

2007-03-20 Thread bpa
I get a similar symptom - my initial guess is the page format has changed. It needs more investigation. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce] SlimCD 1.85 - The Return ofAlienBBC!

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> I think the addition to bootlocal.sh has taken care of the problem, and > I got my a my first bath in the Linux OS too. Great! Thanks for the feedback! I uploaded 1.86 which should fix that issue. > SlimCD on my USB pen drive. Before I do this, I am wondering where the > database and other Sl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC Mac OSX

2007-03-20 Thread js85
In filetypes I can't see any RTSP boxes. In terminal I type mplayer then the bbc/radio4 address an its says its playing, as you say the elapsed time counts up. No visulization? By squeezesoft or SB3 do you mean hardwear in which case I've an SB3 -- js85 --

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze on Vista connecting to XP SlimServer

2007-03-20 Thread plague
I am running Softsqueeze 3.3 with Java 6.0 on Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit and my Slimserver is on a WinXP MCE 2005 PC. Everytime I start Softsqueeze it tries to connect to the local host instead of my other PC. I have found out how to ovecome this and thought I would share. Right click on the s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce] SlimCD 1.85 - The Return ofAlienBBC!

2007-03-20 Thread Ron F .
Thanks again Michael. I am going to continue playing with SlimCD, and I will try FreeNAS/SlimNAS as well. I will probably be back with more questions / comments. -Ron -- Ron F. Ron F.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SaverSwitcher: beta of API for conditional use of particular screensavers

2007-03-20 Thread peterw
Thanks. I've posted a new beta (beta11) that uses hashes for both input and output -- much like my first example in comment #4. http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher/ Since it uses hashes, this beta's pre-usage check API is NOT backwards compatible with the beta9/beta10 code. SaverSwitc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App

2007-03-20 Thread Nikhil
gsamsa;189063 Wrote: > > Future versions of Apollo will have better multi-window support, which > might open up some more possibilities for a desktop app (a separate > "now playing" window, a minimal control panel, etc.) > I was thinking more along these lines .. perhaps in the long term, a cr