Orvis wrote:
> Once the plugin is installed, it not activated by default. So I have to
> activate it. So I check the plugin Spotty. But once it is checked, it
> asks to restart LMS. So I click restart, but when the page reloads, the
> Spotty plugin is unchecked.
>
"Checking the plugin" _is_
philippe_44 wrote:
> Avahi has an option where it does not ask for exclusive port control
> (so_reuse_port when opening socket, I dont remember what is the avahis
> option name)
It does (disallow-other-stacks), and it defaults to non-exclusive use.
Unfortunately, Docker -does- require
I'm experimenting with moving LMS into a Docker container and I've hit a
stumbling block with ShairTunes.
As I'm on a Pi host, it is running Raspbian which, by default, has the
Avahi daemon running. This binds to 5353:udp on all interfaces and
therefore blocks Docker from doing so and
bpa wrote:
> An interesting backgrounder to the 2009 document is this doc by I think
> one of the tech guys in BBC
> http://smethur.st/posts/176135860
>
Wow - that's big! But interesting. I'll read more of it later when I'm
not supposed to be working.
>
> It sounds like you want a bookmark
bpa wrote:
> LMS expects in Favorites to be a playable URL. If there is only a PID
> parameter (i.e. no BBC specific part ) - then it cannot be a BBC URL it
> has to be a pseudo URL (e.g. like the iplayer:// URls ). It is adding
> unnecessary step into the process, adding a new protocol
bpa wrote:
> I can't reconcile this statement with previous post which said "*it
> turned out to be relatively simple to edit the entries in the favourites
> file"*
>
> You didn't say - use the GUI to re-save the updated menu entries in the
> usual way.
I have created several favourites
Thank you for the caveats, bpa, and my apologies if I am encouraging an
increase in your support burden! To be clear, I'm not suggesting manual
creation of favourites - all mine were created in the GUI in the usual
way, but I totally take your point that the resulting stored link is not
as
Thank you, BPA, for getting onto this latest change so quickly. Not for
the first time, I discovered that you'd fixed the problem already when I
was looking to see what might have gone wrong...
I have several favourites set for series and they stopped working when
the BBC removed the api that
Thanks, tschu. I'll go that way if we don't hear from the original
author.
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I've been using this plugin for a couple of years now to switch an amp
on and off with one of my Squeezeboxes - very useful, thank you!
I'm suddenly getting the following message at the top of the "plugins"
page of LMS Settings:
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BobSammers wrote:
> As the potential problems with 1.4.10 aren't affecting me, it looks like
> the only observable difference if I upgrade will be that I'll lose the
> ability to use "dash:" urls!
That's quite rude, isn't it? Sorry. I don't mean to suggest you've not
been do
bpa wrote:
> 1.4.10 is old, missing some check and uses http 1.0 which can makes for
> a high TCP load and unusable on Windows for live streams. Since the
> last patch there will be no more changes to it.
I know it's not the newest one. I assumed at some point you'd decide to
make the branch
bpa wrote:
> dash:// - doesn't work so I'd like to know what version of plugin and
> LMS user is using who had dash:// working
I'm using a recent nightly of LMS 7.9.1 (1493198727) and iPlayer 1.4.10
/ Extras 1.9.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 i386.
The dash: url I quoted
ian_heys wrote:
> Can't get any of them to play. What settings should I have in BBC
> iPlayer plugin - I've got DASH>HLS>MP3>FlashAAC in the "Live Stream" box
> for this test.
I've got it working in the UK (at 320k), but as with the other stuff I
got going yesterday, I had to change the
bpa wrote:
> Remember playlist.json is also likely to disappear at some time.
Presumably 1st May 2018, although evidence suggests this may be subject
to change...
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bpa wrote:
> Programmes are identified by the vpid (not pid) but vpid can be a brand,
> a channel and lots of other things (check out BBC programme ontology -
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies
I must admit, I hadn't realised there was so much documentation
available. Nevertheless, I can't work
I see that there is a JSON feed of data from the
"www.bbc.co.uk/programmes" stem (as pointed out in the maintenance
message) but all the radio stations and TV channels are mixed together
with no obvious way of filtering. Nor can I seem to get JSON data for
the individual episodes there (although
bpa wrote:
> There are already libraries for JSON to Perl and I use them for other
> data such as the realtime metadata - so no need for any extra work.
I realise that, but earlier you said:
> JSON also has some quirks compared to XML so it is never just a quick
> change of library call from
bpa wrote:
>
> If JSON feeds are only going to work for a short time - is it worth the
> effort ? It would be better to spend time on a more durable solution.
There is now a date: 'May 1st 2018'
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mdjyb.xml). An extra year with JSON
and the "promise" (however
Ok - that's more complicated than I was hoping.
bpa wrote:
> If JSON feeds are only going to work for a short time - is it worth the
> effort ? It would be better to spend time on a more durable solution.
If "durable" = "screen scraping", that's an interesting use of the word.
What I'm
So it's working again, which is very good news!
(As an aside, I use this almost every day, so I'm very pleased and the
thanks due to bpa from me for his tireless work building and supporting
it are immense.)
When I spoke about the JSON feeds a few posts back, it looked like
everything had been
This may not actually be the BBC pulling the feeds - it could just be a
more minor outage.
The service message says that the service is supposed to continue until
May 2017 and although it's close we aren't there yet. It also says that
the JSON service will continue beyond May and unless I've
I have made a unified menu, which didn't take quite as long as I feared
and probably does work better for me. It seems to function okay, but I'm
not quite sure whether it's 100% there. Although it's kind of obvious,
it's only when I got down to editing it that the divide between static
and
bpa wrote:
> With chunked http most of the time there is no http connection open
> since each 6 secs file takes about 250msec to download and so one
> connection is only normally open for 250msec at time about once every 6
> secs.
Got you - with DASH there is (almost) never an open HTTP session
bpa wrote:
> Yes - you need to merge menu item from the BBCiPlayerExtra file
> default.opml with the menu items you want from BBCiPlayer and create a
> new menu.opml file for BBCiPlayer.
Thank you, I'll have a look at how this works.
What will happen to my customised menus when the plugins are
bpa wrote:
> Normal file or live http stream are a single GET and a stream of a
> largne number bytes (e.g. at least 3 minutes) . When stream as paused
> LMS get http connection open and temporarily stopped reading. DASH is
> chunked http with many 6 secs fragments so it is like playing many
I'm (fortunately) not seeing the buffering problems (and TheLastman, I'm
on PlusNet fibre and it's worked flawlessly for iPlayer and everything
else since I got it a few years ago).
I do experience a problem that I've always assumed is just one of those
things, but it seems worth raising it in
bpa wrote:
> No.
>
> 1. Extra uses unsupported BBC stream which change far more often than
> official BBCiPLayer plugin so more updates would be forced on users who
> dont want or use the Extra features. If BBC would to change web stuff,
> the BBciPlayer will all still work whereas the
bpa wrote:
> IIRC cache.db is a Sqlite data
It is, SqLite 3 format.
bpa wrote:
> I think I have tracked down the growing cache and it may not be metadata
> - if BBCIPlayer Extra is used to play different programs cache grow
> slowly because Extra has to use http to fetch lots of web pages from
My cache.db (which is only a couple of days old) has 227 rows in it,
even though I haven't listened to anything since about 2pm. It hasn't
shrunk at all during observation over the the last hour or so, either.
The expiry column in the table is integers, so it's hard without looking
at the code
bpa wrote:
> There is a very very very slim possibility old pages are cached either
> in LMS or browser. So stop LMS, delete LMS cache directory templates and
> file cache.db, start LMS and clear Browser cache for LMS pages.
Thank you very much!
Only after I got all the other information you
I'm wondering about uninstalling both plugins again, manually deleting
the prefs files associated with each one and then reinstalling.
Is there anything else I should clear out at the same time, or would you
recommend a different approach?
bpa wrote:
> Please answer my last question
>
> In your WebUI Settings/Plugins/BBCiPlayer - do you not have a "Bitrate
> for On Demand DASH" drop down box ?
>
> If not then you have an install or version problem.
Sorry bpa, I did, but for some reason I got a message when I submitted
it saying
-[Note: this post could appear out of order, a previous one was kept
back for moderation.]-
Okay, I've found "bbciplayer.prefs". The first 5 lines of the file are
as follows:
Code:
---
Dashspeed_aod: ~
Dashspeed_live: ~
_ts_Dashspeed_aod: 1473455545
I've had a look in DASH.pm and the function that prints the log message
I referenced above. If I understand what's going on, part of the
algorithm for determining the best speed is to use a system preference
set against 'plugin.bbciplayer' for the value of "Dashspeed_aod". I
don't have such a
bpa wrote:
> The GZIP issue just prevent playback. Any bitrate issue is separate.
> To understand what is happening you need to turn on the logging for the
> plugin and pick a different program for each test otherwise caching may
> distort results.
Yes, sorry, I should probably have written
anotherbob wrote:
> I wonder if it's a solution to my problem too? Unfortunately I don't
> know how to carry out the instructions. Can someone explain it in simple
> language.
It sounds like the same problem. This is exactly what was happening to
me and BPA's updated code fixed it.
You have a
Thanks for providing this fix, BPA, it's solved the main problem I had
(which had symptoms similar to everyone else).
However, I've reverted to switching off the DASH streams again because
they currently only seem to give me 48k (at least, as reported on the
web interface and in the player's
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