OK, I have just 'located' everything mplayer and wiped it from the system,
and then done a reinstall of the mplayer rpms.

The rpms still say they're not installed (but they are - so must be
something wrong with the rpm header or something), and AlienBBC now all
works! :-)

First observation (with SB2) is that the spectrum display 'stutters' when
playing AlienBBC stations.  Switching the RTSP -> FLAC and RTSP -> WAV file
conversions off (ie forcing MP3 streaming??) fixes this, but forcing a FLAC
stream in a similar manner doesn't - which seems odd given the native FLAC
decoding by the SB2 and that I haven't noticed this with FLAC music streams.

Presumably the lame install is only required for MP3 streaming?

Thanks, Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Dixon
Sent: 07 April 2005 09:24
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Subject: [slim] Struggling with AlienBBC FC3 install


I've installed 0.97, mplayer pre0.6 and (in theory) the essential codecs
package.

Everything works but nothing plays.

The alien files are all present and correct, and mplayer is there and I can
play a m3u playlist file.

But I'm not sure about the 'essential codecs' package.  I installed it using
rpm -Uvh, but when I query it with rpm -ql it says it's not installed.  But
installing it using rpm -Uvh says it is installed!  So I installed it
(again) using rpm --force ivh, it unpacks but then rpm -ql says it's not
installed :-(

What's going on?  Where should the 'essential codecs' be in the filesystem
so I can check if they're there or not.

Thanks, Patrick

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