First off, thanks to flipflip for SSODS, which works brilliantly on my new DS-107+/128. Something from your wishlist will be on its way shortly.
Having successfully installed SS 6.5.3, I decided to install AlienBBC, as most of my morning listening is to Radio 4. Installation was fine, but I could not get the streams to play at all. They would either seem to try to connect continuously, or to connect and immediately stop. I found the information in the SSODS Readme file regarding the necessary file conversion rules for RTSP to allow AlienBBC to work, and added them to the convert.conf file in /SlimServer. Restarting SS made no difference - still no sound. After enabling Telnet on the DS, I managed to determine that there was nothing wrong with the AlienBBC or SS installations, and that I was able to play a BBC stream via the command line. Eventually, I discovered, by looking at the file types menu under Server Settings/File Types, that the three RTSP file types were pointed at mplayer.sh, whereas the conversion rules in convert.conf all pointed at mplayer-stdout. I couldn't understand at first why this was the case. It turns out that within the /SlimServer/Plugins/Alien directory, that there is a file called custom-convert.conf which contains three RTSP conversion rules that all point to mplayer.sh. SlimServer was reading this file, and the rules within it were overriding those that I'd added to /SlimServer/convert.conf. I then renamed the custom-convert.conf file to custom-convert.conf.old, restarted SlimServer to get it to re-read the convert.cong file and this fixed the problem - AlienBBC now works just fine. Steve -- sdhubbard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sdhubbard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36666 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
