Hi )p(, I discovered that your progress bar issue is a symptom of a bigger problem...
In general Squeezebox Server needs to know a track's duration before it can show a progress bar; and it needs to know the track's size before it can support seeking. In prior versions of Squeezebox Server (v7.6.x and earlier), if an external stream server provided an Http Content-Length header value, plus either an "icy-br" or an "x-audicast-bitrate" header value, then Squeezebox Server could calculate the duration (content length divided by bitrate), and it would also turn on support for the seek function. Unfortunately in Squeezebox Server v7.7 (aka LMS) the developers broke these mechanisms... 1) The developers changed the way Squeezebox Server handles "icy-br" and "x-audicast-bitrate" header values: In the past these always meant *kilo* bits per second, but now SBS "intelligently" interprets low values as before as kilo bits per second, but it interprets values above 1000 as bits per second. => This breaks Whitebear's older code. But admittedly it is easily fixed by having Whitebear check the SBS/LMS version number to conditionally determine what value it shall provide in its "icy-br" or "x-audicast-bitrate" headers. Yuckk! 2) The developers changed the way Squeezebox Server determines if a stream is seekable. Previously a stream was deemed seekable if Squeezebox Server had values for two out three of the variables length, duration, bitrate. However now, from v7.7 onwards, they use a different mechanism to determine if a stream is seekable. => This means that remote streams served by Whitebear, (or indeed remote Http streams served by other servers) are no longer seekable. Unfortunately I could not (yet) find a work around for this. IMHO breaking working code in such a way, is not very friendly towards the external developer community... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90842 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
