I think I have found a fix for the start delay of live streams on Windows 10 systems for player that need transcoding (e.g. Boom, SB3, Transporter). As this is a test which may have iterations & interactions, I have started this new thread to avoid cluttering up main support thread on what might be a dead end..
I'd like to have this fix tested on a variety of systems and on UK higher speed streams. The fix requires LMS to be a build of 7.9.1 and later than 6-Jul-2017 as the fix depends on a bug fix to LMS. If LMS is 7.9.0 or earlier then the code change will not be activated and so no change in playback. If LMS does not have the 6-Jul-2017 fix then, when playing live BBC stream on device which can play AAC natively (e.g Radio, Touch, Squeezelite) the server.log will get filled with very very many "Error: Select task failed " messages - depending on start delay. I have attached a replacement DASH.pm file. I have tested on a Win 10 system which had start problems and on a Win 7 which did not. I have also tested on an Ubuntu system. Please report if there are any side effects such as increased CPU load. Initially I am not releasing a repo with the fix to avoid splitting the user base which happened with previous test updates. Instructions - read all the steps before trying them. 1. Download the attached file *DASH.pm.txt* into a known directory (e.g. Downloads) 2. Stop LMS. 3. Use File Manager to open directory with BBCiPlayer plugin file - usually \ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins\Plugins\BBCiPlayer 4. Copy the downloaded DASH.pm.txt file into the BBCiPlayer plugin directory 5. Rename the current DASH.pm to DASH.pm.org - saving the file makes it easier to revert. 6. Rename the DASH.pm.txt to DASH.pm 7. Start LMS and test with "Seconds to start live stream" set to "no delay" +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: DASH.pm.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26269| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109902 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
