On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 15:03 +0100, John Gorst wrote:
> Mark Bennett wrote:
> 
> > 
> > OK, with some amateur Perl reading and the judicious use of a comment 
> > character to the Alien plugin and now it's working.
> > 
> > I'm still not clear if this is a deliberate attempt to make it
> > difficult for people to use SlimServer to transcode BBC streams
> > to mp3 streams over the internet. If it is then so be it, but
> > I wouldn't put that limitation in personally.
> > 
> > If it's a bug then I'm happy to point out what I've had to
> > comment out, but I suspect I may well have broken it for other
> > situations - after all the code must have served some purpose
> > originally. Still seems to work on WinAmp, WMP, Softsqueeze, SB1
> > and SB2.
> > 
> 
> Did you hear back from anyone why this doesnt work?

No - I've had no feedback at all on why this was done.

> Hvae you found that your changes break things?

Not so far, but others might use more features of SlimServer
than I do....

> Could you share your changes.

Comment out line 69 of slimserver/Plugins/Alien/RTSP.pm:
69c69
< #             return undef;
---
>               return undef;

Not the most elegant fix, but the simplest to replicate on any
future upgrade...

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