I was wondering if some kind soul can help me get AlienBBC working. I'm
on a G4 Powerbook with OSX 10.4.7. My SlimServer version is 6.3 - 8154
- (8J135). I *was* using 6.5b1 but installed 6.3 back over the top of
it because I found that early release a little buggy. What's worth
bearing in mind is that it took me 5 minutes to get AlienBBC working
under 6.5b1 but now I'm having problems. :-)

So I'm back to 6.3 and I have followed these installation steps:

i) Downloaded alienbbc-linux-v1.04_6.2-3. Copied mplayer.sh from Bin to
~/Library/SlimDevices/bin. Copied the contents of Plugins to
~/Library/SlimDevices/Plugins. 

ii) Downloaded mplayer from the link on the AlienBBC website. I did
have another version installed under /usr/local/bin but I have
commented that out and instead installed the version linked as
suggested. The abbreviated contents of /usr/local/bin are:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      147696 Jan 27  2005 flac
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel         386 Jan 27  2004 gendiff
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      337204 May 23 05:40 lame
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      356508 Jan 27  2005 lame.old
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     seantown    80880 Mar 13  2003 lft
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      102436 Jan 27  2005 metaflac
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           5 Sep 11  2004 mpgcat ->
mpgtx
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           5 Sep 11  2004 mpgdemux ->
mpgtx
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           5 Sep 11  2004 mpginfo ->
mpgtx
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           5 Sep 11  2004 mpgjoin ->
mpgtx
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel           5 Sep 11  2004 mpgsplit ->
mpgtx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      198428 Aug 26  2002 mpgtx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel     5246936 Jun 28 22:19 mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel     6385952 May 21  2005
mplayer.notworking

iii) Downloaded and installed the iTunes-LAME 2.0.7 disk image but on
seeing the later comments in this thread, deleted or renamed any lame
files currently installed and instead installed LAME-3.9.61 from the
Thalictrum site. Contents of /usr/local/lib:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel      331820 May 23 05:40
libmp3lame.0.0.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel          37 Jun 28 22:47
libmp3lame.0.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.0.0.0.dylib
-rw-r--r--    1 root     wheel      381832 May 23 05:40 libmp3lame.a
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel          37 Jun 28 22:47
libmp3lame.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.0.0.0.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     wheel         816 May 23 05:40 libmp3lame.la

After those pieces were installed I tested mplayer at the command
line:

Powerbook:/usr/local/lib seantownsend$ /usr/local/bin/mplayer -playlist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/paul_jones.rpm 

MPlayer dev-CVS-060315-18:00-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
STREAM_HTTP(1), URL:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/paul_jones.rpm

And after a few other messages and some caching I hear a BBC stream
loud and clear. My problem is that I get *nothing* out of either the
Squeezebox or from Softsqueeze. The AlienBBC option is showing up under
Internet Radio but when I try and play a stream (say Radio4 Live) I get
a short 'Connecting' message then nothing. I have re-cycled the server
several times but still no luck. Given that I can get a stream at the
command-line using mplayer, and that the plug-in itself shows up
correctly, what am I missing? Any help much appreciated, I've spent
hours on this tonight. :-) I'm worried that there is something
left-over from my 6.5b1 SlimServer install that is borking 6.2/3
Plugins. I will try debug mode and see what I find tomorrow....


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