Hi all, I hope someone can help me out here because I am stumped. I got my new squeezebox the other day and am busy setting it up. Everything has been super easy and works like a charm on my decrepit old Fedora Core 1 fileserver.
...that is, until I tried to install AlienBBC. I roughly followed the directions on https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/18, starting where it talks about installing LAME, except I had to build mplayer from source. But, I'm fairly convinced mplayer is working. In fact when I do the "standalone test" that I've read about (mplayer -bandwidth 10000000 -cache 128 -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.rpm) I get sound out of my FC1 box when I plug in headphones to the sound card (first time I've ever tried that, btw.) Anyway, the problem comes about, as far as I can tell, with the -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/3 part of the streaming command. If I add that in to the standalone test I get an error: (here's the relevant part) [AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default). [AO PCM] Failed to open /dev/fd/3 for writing! If I change /dev/fd/3 to just a filename (like /home/username/test) it fills up a file, so I don't think the -ao option is broken. If I look in the /dev/fd/ folder there is no "3", only 0 1 2 and 255. This is where my just-enough-to-be-dangerous linux knowledge fails me. Is there a way to add a 3 in there? Looks like somehow they point to /dev/pts/0 and that the folder is a symlink to /proc/self/fd When I googled I ran across a similar problem with FreeBSD and they said the fix was to: mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd but mount doesn't seem to support that on my system it says: mount: fs type fdescfs not supported by kernel So. Any thoughts? Can anyone suggest a workaround? I'd love to have AlienBBC work...not sure it is worth doing a full reinstall of linux over, though, if that's the solution. Thanks, Aaron -- the_arm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32150 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
