bklaas Wrote: > alright, I got mplayer working (thanks to the gentoo forums), now it's > on to making slimserver work with these real audio streams. Tom, have > you gotten that far? I'm assuming there needs to be a new line in > convert.conf to handle .ra streams? > > And while we're at it, mplayer should be able to handle a few > more...wma, asx, etc. Any pointers there? > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/tips.html has some good > pointers on wma over ffmpeg, but I'd like to know the ropes with > mplayer...That's great to here you got it up and running. Now, if you install > the new AlienBBC 0.99 for linux, it sets up a seperate slimserver.conf that overides any seperate entries in the convert.conf. It adds the handles for both RealAudio and WindowsMedia streaming that you will need. It also takes care of wma local files so you no longer need to use ffmpeg.
Eventhough I don't directly use the AlienBBC plugin, it is useful just to have it installed so it takes care of all the *.conf stuff that always takes so much tweaking. The only change that I made was to change the volume=0 value to volume=8 on both the WMA and RA settings since they were a little quiter then my AAC (.m4a) conversions using FAAD. If you need to make a similar change, you will see where to make it based on the nice #comment sections in all the AlienBBC files. I'm assuming that you have installed the _pre7 version of mplayer, if Gentoo only is up to the _pre6 release, the settings are in the files too, you just have to remove the comment marks. Any other questions, feel free to ask. It has made all the difference for me once I got it working. I've even updated the PublicRadioFanBrowser plugin to take advantage of streaming WM and RA. See my post in the Plugins Forum. --Tom Malsbury -- malsbury _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
