> my wife is ready to forbid me from ever upgrading to a new op system > again > Listen to her - it is good advice - if everything is OK avoid upgrading OSs wherever possible failing that - make it a dual boot system so you can tackle new OS problem at leisure knowing you can reboot old system and have a normal life again.
Test results are good - all potins down to Quicktime related and possibly a security interaction. > > As many users have been reporting in the Vista threads, they are > having problems opening the web interface with 6.5.0 or 6.5.1 or 6.5.2. > I started having those same problems, and no matter what I did, I could > no longer get the web interface to work properly. So, I reinstalled > 6.3.1, which was always the version that has worked best for me in XP. Up to now I think not many of the non-Slimdevices developers had Vista so no first hand experience - this is now changing. Latest 6.5.2 has changes to address Vista issues regarding services. I think other bug fixes including the web interface will follow. That said 6.3.1 was built using a version of ActiveState Perl which was not tested on Vista so I think it may not be the best solution for Vista. However as it seems to work OK stay with it until more Vista bugs are fixed. > Using 6.3.1, I followed your instructions re mplayer and > custom-convert.conf. > IIRC custom-convert.conf was called slimserver-convert.conf in 6.3.1. - that was the cause of the problem. I forgot I had save mplayer.exe as mplayerrc1.exe in the zip file - that was to stop people accidentally overwriting their mplayer.exe. I forgot to tell you to rename mplayerrc1.exe to mplayer.exe. I think mplayer.exe has problems if it is not called "mplayer.exe" > > interesting: When I tried to play a m4a song by selecting the m4a song > from the Squeezebox's remote in my living room, the song began playing > instantaneously on my p.c. in my den by mplayer. However, the song did > not play on the Squeezebox; after about 20 seconds the Squeezebox > simply emitted a very high pitched whine (I was able to duplicate this > scenario multiple times). Although the Squeezebox didn't work, I found > this encouraging, as selecting a song from my remote did in fact cause > an m4a file to play instantaneously, albeit not in the right place! > The default action of mplayer is to play through PC speakers - the command line options "-ao pcm:nowaveheader:file" redirect the sound to a file which would be processed by Flac. So that "test" was good. Whine came because no sound proper from mplayer - just text from mplayer converted by flac into audio stream sent to Squeezebox. Next steps - undo some of the previous steps and make changes to suit 6.3.1 1. Stop slimserver 2. Restore convert.conf as shipped. 3. Rename a clean copy of custom-convert.conf to slimserver-convert.conf - should be in same directory as convert.conf 4. Rename mplayerrc1.exe to mplayer.exe - it is in the Bin/MSWin32... directory. 5. Make sure you have replaced socketwrapper as installing 6.3.1. would have it back. Although I am not sure if socketwrapper is significant in 6.3.1 6. Start slimserver - check if mplayer is now chosen type 7. test an m4a file. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34181 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
