Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread epoch1970
Hi. For me AlienBBC 2.5 works great on SC7.3.2/debian linux. I have noticed that, probably due to connection failures or timeouts, my machine can pile up inactive mplayer/flac processes over time. They take no CPU, but a little memory and I am looking to make the headless server as reliable as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread bpa
Ron Is this a new AlienBBC install or an upgrade from a working one that is now broken ? Can you get a log (See WebUI Settings/Advanced/Logging) with player.source set to DEBUG and plugin.alienbbc set to DEBUG 1. Note time 2. Try a station 3. Copy into a plain text file *all* log entries from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread Ron Olsen
bpa;424277 Wrote: Ron Is this a new AlienBBC install or an upgrade from a working one that is now broken ? Can you get a log (See WebUI Settings/Advanced/Logging) with player.source set to DEBUG and plugin.alienbbc set to DEBUG 1. Note time 2. Try a station 3. Copy into a plain

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread bpa
mplayer.sh does have execute enabled in the zip file that is downloaded into your system - somehow it has got turned off in the installation process. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread Ron Olsen
bpa;424310 Wrote: mplayer.sh does have execute enabled in the zip file that is downloaded into your system - somehow it has got turned off in the installation process. I used the Squeezecenter Extension Downloader for the installation; I did not install AlienBBC myself from the zip file.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread bpa
I think it may be Gentoo specific as ED works OK for Linux for other users. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63432

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-18 Thread epoch1970
bpa;424275 Wrote: This problem occurs with some Linux distros and more recent mplayer builds. Check out this thread - it has a modified mplayer.sh inpost #2 (make sure to mark executable after downloading.) which you could try to see if it helps.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-17 Thread bpa
Displaying the BBC program images and the station logos for live (national regional) stations was one of the small enhancements made for 2.5. These are best seen on Squeezeplay and SBC. The BBC images use a wide screen format which is displayed correctly on Squeezeplay and SBC but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-17 Thread kesey
Triode and bpa, many thanks for all the work on AlienBBC, it is a great facility to have available - courtesy of your efforts. all the best, and well done Shane Lowry! -- kesey kesey's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-17 Thread Ron Olsen
I'm running SqueezeCenter 7.3.2 on Gentoo Linux, and just installed the AlienBBC v2.5-7.3 plugin via the Extension Downloader. When I try to play a stream (for example, Guy Garvey's Finest Hour in BBC 6 Music), I get the following error in /var/lib/squeezecenter/server.log: 09-05-17

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-16 Thread Triode
AlienBBC Release 2.5 for 7.3.x and 7.4 is now available through Extension Downloader. This release has been in beta for a while and is primarily intended to fix bugs and ensure compatibility with SqueezeCenter and the BBC site. More details have been discussed on the beta thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: AlienBBC 2.5

2009-05-16 Thread Millwood
By the way, maybe it's not new, but I've just noticed that I'm getting thumbnail images with (some?) streams. Composer of the week listen again has a nice composer related thumbnail. New or not - thanks for a wonderful add-on. And one small wish for the future. I pause by hand - I remember my