Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
ChipMonk wrote: I'm getting the same multiple instances of ffmpeg or avconv on multi core Raspberry Pi 2 so I don't think it's a single core issue. I'm sure that mrw's ffmpeg_LMS_wrapper will sort it but I don't have the Linux expertise to implement this fix. Help with getting this wrapper

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-14 Thread pippin
Mnyb wrote: See picture . Thanks! btw why does the current playlist sometimes gets out of whack after the ipad bee sleeping shoving wrong number wrong cover but the correct tiltle and artist , this fixes itself after you restart ipeng ? Hm, don't know. Could you send me a screen shot of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread majones
VirusKiller wrote: Anyone know what ak and linw mean in these URLs? The two Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)? majones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13029 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread monxton
monxton wrote: I have installed ffmpeg and bpa's plugin, and I can hear the streams, but I only get a few seconds before they stop playing and start rebuffering. I've tried the different URLs including the explicit sb_low ones, that doesn't apparently make a difference. My Settings-File

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
bpa wrote: That's for that data point. Please give distro version, LMS version and ffmpeg version so full comparisons can be made as I think some users do not have the problem. I'll boot up my old Pi B (original) and see if the problem happens. I'm afraid I have limited skills in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-14 Thread Mnyb
pippin wrote: OK, no Artist, just detailed roles here. I should probably consider to change the detailed roles in this case. Could one of you please tell me your artist configuration in Settings-My Music? Still consider this a bug. What does the web interface show on NowPlaying? Yes,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
bins wrote: Should I be able to use these URLS in the triode plugin on my squeezebox server somehow? I can't see where I would add them Thanks Rob No Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS +

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
JerryFn wrote: -- Sorry should I be looking somewhere else? Some basic instructions? Thanks Logitech Media Server Status Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1413523611 @ Fri Oct 17 21:01:24 PDT 2014 Hostname: Jeremy-Frymans-iMac.local Server IP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread rmgalley
My LMS on on a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 NAS. I have installed bpa's plug-in but do not know how to install ffmpeg on the NAS. In the RAIDar interface there is the option to install new Add-ons but, if I remember correctly, these were in the .bin format. Also the NAS contains all my backups so I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
monxton wrote: Thanks, bpa, for your fast response. I thought it was probably a processor speed problem, but I would then have expected the lower rate streams to be audibly less worse. Once decoded all audio stream produce a PCM satream of 44.1Khz/16 or 48Khz/16bit which have the same number

[SlimDevices: Plugins] The New HSL files on windows PC

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
\Ronnie\Desktop\ffmpeg\ffmpeg-20150214-git-ac7fc44-win64-static\bin http://'[image: http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz140/Maninavan1/LMS/ffmeg%20location_zpsotncerhl.jpg]' (http://s821.photobucket.com/user/Maninavan1/media/LMS/ffmeg%20location_zpsotncerhl.jpg.html) Then locate the LMS Bin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
expectingtofly wrote: Many thanks for this. I've given it to go. I'm finding that ffmpeg won't work with the options specified in the custom-convert.conf : Code: [playhls.sh] -loglevel quiet -nostdin -i $FILE$ -f wav - | [lame] --silent -q $QUALITY$

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
bpa wrote: I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. However if you do see it - please post the distro you are using, the LMS version and the ffmpeg/avconv version. I have a Odroid U3 so I shoudl be able to reproduce if necessary. I can't install ffmpeg. I've tried

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread PasTim
vinnielo wrote: Sorry.. I've not been keeping up with the thread.. there are too many posts to read through which is probably a good thing. I hope someone can post up a summary in a new pinned thread in this 3rd party software forum just to help those of us out who haven't been able to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Verulamius
bpa wrote: armv5 are low powered CPU and I think the processor cannot decode and re-encode the stream into Flac fast enough. ffmpeg is a big application built for processors with FPUs so unless there is a specially tuned build available for your system you have two choices 1. Just use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: I am guessing that the -nostdin is important. I tested the script on a i5 based Ubuntu 14.04 system and stdin was OK. It sounds like different builds of ffmpeg so I have to get my Pi going. Can you describe where you go anf how you installed ffmpeg so that same version

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. However if you do see it - please post the distro you are using, the LMS version and the ffmpeg/avconv version. I have a Odroid U3 so I shoudl be able to reproduce if necessary. Raspi: Linux squeezeplug 3.18.7+ #755

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
expectingtofly wrote: Just a normal aptget -install ffmpeg Actually, I think -nostdin is working and not the cause. One thought, Is it just a simple case of a slow processor therefore no time for the streaming to start, so it kills it to early? Do we just need to put a sleep in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Klammer
I have tried everything suggested on the thread so far and all i get are errors. I have no technical knowledge with linux etc. and I am now completely lost! Hopefully someone will produce a package to install ffmpeg on a Synology Diskstation and a package to update Triode's iPlayer Plugin or an

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
slartibartfast wrote: Does that problem affect the odroid u3? I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. However if you do see it - please post the distro you are using, the LMS version and the ffmpeg/avconv version. I have a Odroid U3 so I shoudl be able to reproduce if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
bpa wrote: Attempt at fix to kill off ffmpeg on completion. Attached is a zip file. Download and unzip into a temp directory. There should be two files. 1. LMS must be stopped when making these changes. 2. Save the Plugin PlayHLS files Bin/playhls.sh and custom-convert.conf file

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread JerryFn
slartibartfast wrote: You do realise that post you quoted was seven years ago! No I did not realise, clearly adds to the confusion! JerryFn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40907 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread amcluesent
Radio 3 HD stream back on my Transporter with LMS running on Windows 7 64bit/HP54L microserver :) Respect due to everyone who has reverse-engineered the BBC! amcluesent's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Nick_G
Audio Factory Part II: The Saga Continues: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/2ff95543-7547-4b2d-9305-563428fb74f5 Regards, Nick Nick_G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38427 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
bpa wrote: I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. However if you do see it - please post the distro you are using, the LMS version and the ffmpeg/avconv version. I have a Odroid U3 so I shoudl be able to reproduce if necessary. Ah OK so which ffmpeg did you install.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
bpa wrote: I tested the script on a i5 based Ubuntu 14.04 system and nostdin was OK. It sounds like different builds of ffmpeg so I have to get my Pi going. Can you describe where you go anf how you installed ffmpeg so that same version can be used., I can;'t do any more until later

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread JerryFn
Triode wrote: There have been a couple of other threads here about the BBC making higher quality MP3 listen again streams available in the uk. The attached plugin makes these available for playback on a Squeezebox2 or later player. The added audio quality really makes a difference to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bins
Nick_G wrote: I think these are all of them: (can't include the links because this is my first post ... ... Regards, Nick Should I be able to use these URLS in the triode plugin on my squeezebox server somehow? I can't see where I would add them Thanks Rob

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
JerryFn wrote: I think this may take some time to resolve abut any clear instructions on installing this into LMS on my iMac would be really helpful. Patient, but rather cross with the BBC. You do realise that post you quoted was seven years ago!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-14 Thread pippin
Ah, that happens when iPeng didn't get a new playlist for the current player, yet. Playlists, especially long ones, can be painfully slow to load on LMS. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread JerryFn
Triode wrote: There have been a couple of other threads here about the BBC making higher quality MP3 listen again streams available in the uk. The attached plugin makes these available for playback on a Squeezebox2 or later player. The added audio quality really makes a difference to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread vinnielo
Listeners from outside of the UK can get a 96k AAC stream with this address pattern: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/llnw/bbc_radio_newcastle.m3u8 *RadioFeeds UK Ireland..* an up-to-date radio directory for your Squeezebox/Transporter/UE Smart

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. However if you do see it - please post the distro you are using, the LMS version and the ffmpeg/avconv version. I have a Odroid U3 so I shoudl be able to reproduce if necessary. For what it's worth, ffmpeg works fine

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread gian
hello All, BBC Radio 3 is muted, is it me or a general problem? thanks for your feedback, ciao, -Gian town: Musical Fidelity Dr.Thomas, Preamp II, Infinity 7K, Squeezebox Classic (2), Squeezebox Radio, Ubuntu 12.4 LTS server country: Musical Fidelity A-5, Infinity Renaissance 90, Musical

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
expectingtofly wrote: Do we just need to put a sleep in there somehwhere? I'll have a look. There is a sleep in the playhls.sh script. Perversely the faster the processor the bigger the sleep value. It seems the problem with using the shell script is that that stdout pipes are not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control is now available for Windows Phone 8

2015-02-14 Thread wt0
fphredd wrote: Other apps seem to launch keyboard no prob...? So none of the textboxes on the Server Info work? -- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com wt0's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
bpa wrote: There is a sleep in the playhls.sh script. Perversely the faster the processor the bigger the sleep value. It seems the problem with using the shell script is that that stdout pipes are not connected by LMS when the playing application (vlc,ffmpeg/mplayer) starts and so that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread d_peter
VirusKiller wrote: Anyone know what ak and linw mean in these URLs? ak will refer to Akamai Technologies and llnw (not i) will be Limelight Networks. These are the Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers. d_peter's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
Klammer wrote: The issue is with live radio streams - there are MP3 streams you can play nowe without changes. - Create Favorites for these URLs using a web browser. If you (or a friend) owns a Tablet/smartphone there are terminal emulator apps so you be able to connect to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
monxton wrote: I have installed ffmpeg and bpa's plugin, and I can hear the streams, but I only get a few seconds before they stop playing and start rebuffering. I've tried the different URLs including the explicit sb_low ones, that doesn't apparently make a difference. My Settings-File

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
bpa wrote: I can't be certain but I think it affects single core system. . I'm getting the same multiple instances of ffmpeg or avconv on multi core Raspberry Pi 2 so I don't think it's a single core issue. I'm sure that mrw's ffmpeg_LMS_wrapper will sort it but I don't have the Linux

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2015-02-14 Thread Mnyb
pippin wrote: Thanks! Hm, don't know. Could you send me a screen shot of that, too? Is it just the playlist or also the screen? What do you mean by wrong number? its probably the correct track number in the playlist but if say play track 86 in a playlist ,but if you scrool the the list

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread VirusKiller
Anyone know what ak and linw mean in these URLs? VirusKiller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread d_peter
Nick_G wrote: This is really odd. I have an old Radio 3 HD Sound preset saved on LMS from back when it first became available maybe 3 years ago. I just tried it and it's working. I thought this stream had been terminated? The Radio 3 preset in MSB via Triode's plugin is dead. The url that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread majones
I looked again at Jim Simmons' blog of 24/9/14 that massively understated what was about to happen with the live streams, and reread his points on Listen Again. I'm worried. He says Providing a replacement for listen again (ie not live radio) is a much more difficult problem. ... We will continue

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread hazymat
Can someone help? I've read pages of this thread but still unable to listen to BBC Radio 4 :( Today I encountered the problem where iPlayer (live stream, Radio 4) won't work but instead I get the spoken announcement The BBC no longer provides this service in the windows media format... I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
Man in a van wrote: I get this as well on an O2 Joggler Some distros don't like ffmpeg but offer a fork of ffmpeg called avconv - try looking for avconv bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android

2015-02-14 Thread bwaldron
I've also bought the new app (no need to provide me a refund for my old purchase) and noticed that the artist and station (album) info is missing on the Now Playing screen and notification area -- only the song title appears. This is true only for radio stations -- the display is correct for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
slartibartfast wrote: I can't install ffmpeg. I've tried adding two repositories, one from jon severinsson and one from kirillshkrogalev and both times I type Sudo apt-get install ffmpeg I get package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
expectingtofly wrote: That's good news. So we now have 2 solutions for getting it working on Raspbery Pi 1. Go down the AVConv route that Parky has gone down. 2. Use FFmpeg as per BPA's original plugin. I went down the FFmpeg route and have cross compiled the latesta version and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
JockWatson wrote: Could you do a quick rundown on your setup please amcluesent? I'm pretty much identical (LMS on Win), but not getting any joy (MP3 disabled in filetypes for example). Cheers! for a start I think you need lame installed, it tells you how on the wiki. i put up a new

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
castalla wrote: Just the binary - that big??? yes expectingtofly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63263 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ian_heys
Chippy wrote: As an aside, does anyone know how to find out the bitrate that is being used? If the URL you are playing has the form: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8 then it is 320kBps. If the URl you are playing has the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread AngloCuencano
garym wrote: I thought I saw a post on how to modify these urls to work in the United States. Change uk to ?. I've searched but can't seem to find this now. Or is there some entirely different approach outside UK. I've installed bpa's Apple HLS plugin and my filetypes show this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread tfec
This is the structure for streams outside UK: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/*nonuk*/*sbr_low*/llnw/*bbc_6music*.m3u8 Here are some stations working in Germany: bbc_radio_one, bbc_1xtra, bbc_radio_two, bbc_radio_three, bbc_radio_fourfm, bbc_6music, bbc_wm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread kingswindsor
utgg wrote: To anyone struggling to find the new URLs, the last part of the name is in the URLs in the original triode BBCiPlayer plugin. In web interface just click on Listen Live - BBC Radio xxx and you will see the name you want in the URL. You can also just go into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
Parky wrote: I too was not having a good time with the shell script so have lashed together a perl one which on my RaspberryPi B is a bit more robust. You should put the script in the same directory as bpa's shell script # Wait 4+ hours, you'll then have a avconf executable. Install it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Parky
Firstly I want to say a great thanks to bpa and everyone else who's put together tools, found URLs, badgered those in power and generally got us near a point where we can get iPlayer back on the Squeezebox world. I've put a bit of work together to get my combined squeezeplug/and squeezelite

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
Parky wrote: Ah, yes I was taking it from notes - the current directory isn't in your path so you should do: CFLAGS=-mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfp ./configure Good luck! Yep that did it - thanks. The clock is now ticking. It'll be interesting to see how long a new multi core RasPi 2 takes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bpa
Man in a van wrote: No Luck There are alternatives to ffmpeg such as vlc and mplayer but tend to be bigger and also slower to start and harder to kill when finishing but if there is no other choice it is likely they can be made to work.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread monxton
bpa wrote: ... the problem is probably compression of PCM stream into Flac. The compression level determines how much processing is done and it may default to 5 - you could edit the custom-convert.conf file in PlayHLS plugin directory ans make the following change shown in red which is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
Parky wrote: Firstly I want to say a great thanks to bpa and everyone else who's put together tools, found URLs, badgered those in power and generally got us near a point where we can get iPlayer back on the Squeezebox world. I've put a bit of work together to get my combined

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
Parky wrote: Firstly I want to say a great thanks to bpa and everyone else who's put together tools, found URLs, badgered those in power and generally got us near a point where we can get iPlayer back on the Squeezebox world. I've put a bit of work together to get my combined

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
tfec wrote: 1. Install *libav-tools* instead of ffmpg Code: apt-get install libav-tools 2. On LMS install *PlayHLS* plugin. You need this repository: http://bpaplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repo-playhls.xml 3. In

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
castalla wrote: Couldn't you just add it as a zip attachment here? It's just the binary, yes? Unfortunately not, its 6.5MB zipped. expectingtofly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63263 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread fen_boy
Thanks for all the work everyone. BBC stations now restored and in better quality than before. I did have to compile an up to date version of ffmpeg for my Fedora 14 server as version 0.6.3 was too old. Aside from that adding the plugin and the hls urls was easy enough.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: Some distros don't like ffmpeg but offer a fork of ffmpeg called avconv - try looking for avconv edit: If your current LMS system cannot transcode and play without rebuffering a live http/AAC stream into Flac to be played on a player - there is no point in going further .

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
bpa wrote: Some distros don't like ffmpeg but offer a fork of ffmpeg called avconv - try looking for avconv edit: If your current LMS system cannot transcode and play without rebuffering a live http/AAC stream into Flac to be played on a player - there is no point in going further .

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread catcando
How can I verify the stream I am listening to, is 320kps? Thanks catcando's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=53750 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread NeilT
Many thanks to everyone (especially bpa) for their efforts, I haven't been on this forum for a long time, but it's nice to see some familiar names and how well the community can cope with a disaster like this! I've got everything back up and running on Windows 7 64-bit by installing ffmpeg, then

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
expectingtofly wrote: Good News! I've cross compiled a new version of ffmpeg. (blimey, ffmpeg is a monster it took over an hour to compile) I placed this new version in /usr/bin and everything is now working fine. This is the version that got compiled : It may even be that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread pshepherd
bpa wrote: No ffmpeg should shutdown. Years ago, there was similar situation with AlienBBC and mplayer - mplayer processes could stay around but it was dependent on some builds on mplayer and some versions of Linux. Sounds like the same sort of issue. If it is the same issue then it may

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
Parky wrote: As mentioned above I decided to go down running avconv. I built the latest one from one from http://libav.org/download.html I built it directly on my Raspberry Pi as I don't have cross-compiler tools and wanted to make sure i built it with hardware floating-point. Note

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Chippy
JerryFn wrote: I think this may take some time to resolve abut any clear instructions on installing this into LMS on my iMac would be really helpful. Patient, but rather cross with the BBC. Here are the steps I took to get the new HLS streams working on LMS 7.8.0 running on Mac OS X Snow

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
bonze wrote: I suppose you are aware that these can be dropped into the iPlayer plugin and seem to get picked up as a replacement aac stream ? And will then work from BBC iPlayer Live You need to edit the menu.opml text file in Cache\InstalledPlugins\Plugins\BBCiPlayer For example for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Parky
castalla wrote: So, I just need to use this perl script (edited) if I already have ffmpeg installed? Should do. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. Parky's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread JockWatson
amcluesent wrote: Radio 3 HD stream back on my Transporter with LMS running on Windows 7 64bit/HP54L microserver :) Respect due to everyone who has reverse-engineered the BBC! Could you do a quick rundown on your setup please amcluesent? I'm pretty much identical (LMS on Win), but not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Max2Play Webinterface for Mediaclients (Audioplayer, Squeezeserver, Airplay, XBMC)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
tfec wrote: You don't need ffmpg. Install *libav-tools* Code: apt-get install libav-tools On LMS install *PlayHLS* plugin. You need this repository: http://bpaplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repo-playhls.xml In

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
slartibartfast wrote: I've finally managed to install ffmpeg in a version I found on the odroid forum and everything appears to be working. Ffmpeg shuts down when I pause the stream and is using less than 6% of CPU. I can't seem to see the bitrate I am receiving, how do I find out? when

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
expectingtofly wrote: Unfortunately not, its 6.5MB zipped. Just the binary - that big??? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker (mothballed)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
castalla wrote: Just the binary - that big??? I've sent you (and chipmonk) a PM with a link to a closed share. expectingtofly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63263 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bonze
hazymat wrote: Can someone help? I've read pages of this thread but still unable to listen to BBC Radio 4 :( Then you didn't read the right pages ;) The iPlayer plugin is not currently providing working streams. Use the normal built-in radio streams for now. Radio Local National

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread alveus
Can I reiterate the requests from vinnielo and utgg. I've just come to this thread and it's now so long that I have no idea what is happening - I'm seeing references to a new plugin (PlayHLS) but cannot find where to get it, or what it does. Can we please have a quick summary. I'm still on 7.4

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: I can't install ffmpeg and if I try to install libav-tools I get The following packages have unmet dependencies: libav-tools: depends: ffmpeg (= 7:0.10~) but it is not installable E: unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. This is on an Odroid u3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Parky
ChipMonk wrote: This is very useful. I rushed off to compile my own avconv using your instruction but when I get to CFLAGS=-mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfp configure I get a configure command not found. Obviously I need something else downloaded first - any further advice? Thanks Ah, yes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Man in a van
bpa wrote: Just put SqueezePlug on my Odroid U3 LMS installed as server only, 7.9 nightly. Installed plugin Bona!!!:p Thanks bpa (and everybody) off to watch the rugby atb Ronnie Man in a van's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread odw199
Has anyone been able to make this work outside the UK? I'm based in Hong Kong and have installed the playHLS plugin and ffmpeg but still no joy. I think it's a permission issue connecting the stream of data. Using curl to see the results of the http requests I get: curl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
Nick_G wrote: I think these are all of them: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8 http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_1xtra.m3u8

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread Chippy
As an aside, does anyone know how to find out the bitrate that is being used? Chippy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=247 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
Parky wrote: No, the perl version of playhls properly cleans up old processes (the one attached runs avconv but you can easily edit it to run ffmpeg). So, I just need to use this perl script (edited) if I already have ffmpeg installed? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ian_heys
ian_heys wrote: Or even 'high' to 'low' ? Previous post set me thinking. In UK just tested BBC Radio 6: SBR_high = 320kBps high = 128kBps SBR_low = 96kBps low = 48kBps Think the first two might be AAC-LC (Low complexity) and the second two might be AAC+ but not certain

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
expectingtofly wrote: I've sent you (and chipmonk) a PM with a link to a closed share. Brilliant! You're another star in the SB firmament - works a treat! Do you know for the Pi whether a user has to install all the other ffmpeg stuff and then replace with your binary - or is the binary

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread expectingtofly
castalla wrote: Do you know for the Pi whether a user has to install all the other ffmpeg stuff and then replace with your binary - or is the binary itself sufficient? Just the binary. Placed where squeezebox can find it. With executable permissions. /usr/bin/ is where I put it.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread ChipMonk
expectingtofly wrote: Just the binary. Placed where squeezebox can find it. With executable permissions. /usr/bin/ is where I put it. Thanks again for the binary and this additional info. I take it from this that one doesn't need to install the old ffmpeg first before replacing it. I'll get

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread bonze
JohnB wrote: Sorry, I've re-tried this, using the actual URL for Radio 6 that bonze used in his example, then restarted LMS (and for good measure restarted my Ubuntu server as well) and it DOES work (at least for that URL)! I've tried all the URLs that were supplied earlier for UK and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread castalla
bonze wrote: I have attached two replacement menu.opml files, based on the URLs supplied earlier in the thread. One for UK and one for non-uk. I've tested both on my system and they appear to work OK. If you do use, remember to backup your existing menu.opml (just in case :) )

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] The New HSL files on windows PC

2015-02-14 Thread NeilT
As mentioned by Bonze in 'this post' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-%28UK-only%29p=807227viewfull=1#post807227), you can edit the menu.opml file to play the new streams found in the list in 'this post'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] The New HSL files on windows PC

2015-02-14 Thread NeilT
As mentioned by Bonze in 'this post' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-%28UK-only%29p=807227viewfull=1#post807227), you can edit the menu.opml file to play the new streams found in the list in 'this post'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-02-14 Thread badsoden
Working nicely now on the iPlayer plugin thank you so much guys!! Is this a permanent fix or will a new version of the plugin be released to update this for all? badsoden's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Annouce: Squeeze Control, a squeezebox remote app, is now available for Android

2015-02-14 Thread wt0
bwaldron wrote: I've also bought the new app (no need to provide me a refund for my old purchase) and noticed that the artist and station (album) info is missing on the Now Playing screen and notification area -- only the song title appears. This is true only for radio stations -- the

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