Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread bpa
I think it was lame - I believe there was an update which fixed a bug in lame about the correct setting of the "-x" param. Technically the convert.conf file should have a "$-x$" and not "-x" and this lets SC choose to use -x or not depending on processor endian-ness but possibly the lame bug brok

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread Seron
I'm happy to say it now works again. :) It was the -x parameter. After removing it in custom-convert.conf and restarting squeezecenter it worked. To answer your question about when it stopped working. The last version of squeezecenter it worked with was 7.2.0. One day it could not play .ra strea

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread bpa
Ignore point 1 - on consideration "ps" shows the shell processes and mplayer process & thread -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showt

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread bpa
There are two issues. 1. Mplayer has only one process and 1 thread. I think mplayer is not dying when SC stops using it and so you are getting a number of orphans. You can test this theory by trying to play different URLs. If the mplayer processes all have different URLs in the command line the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread Seron
bpa;363829 Wrote: > The "ls" may not be useful as /dev/fd will be local to the process i.e. > the mplayer process within mplayer.sh - did you check that 25189 > corresponded to the mplayer process id ? How could I check this? The pid seems to increase each time I give the ls command, e.g.. Btw,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread bpa
Information please especially on gentoo systems. The "ls" may not be useful as /dev/fd will be local to the process i.e. the mplayer process within mplayer.sh - did you check that 25189 corresponded to the mplayer process id ? You don't indicate what sort of conversion you are doing RTSP-> WAV

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC produces only noise

2008-11-26 Thread Seron
Lately AlienBBC stopped working for me. When selecting a RealAudio URL (which works with Real Player) it produces noise and the following error message appears on the command line: Streaming: Launching mplayer -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -bandwidth 1000 -cache 128 -af volume=0,resample=44