bpa;232298 Wrote: > I just looked at the instructions and they are a bit ambiguous and > possibly not quite right. > > > The following is the proper location of custom conf files for Linux and > I believe should work even for OSX but hopefully Danco can confirm > > 1. For 6.5 : custom-convert.conf and custom.types should be in their > own Plugin (in this case Alien) folder > 2. For 6.2/6.3 : slimserver-convert.conf and custom-types.conf should > be in the server folder. If another plugin has already installed these > files then the contents will have to be merged. > > For 6.5. custom-convert.conf and custom.types can be placed the server > folder (and they should work) but it is possible they could be > overwritten by another plugin - that is why the custom conf files > should now reside in the respective Plugin folder. > >
Yes, I think I did a quick modification of the instructions when 6.5 came out, and did not make the change clear enough. I had definitely not thought of the issue of merging contents of two different such files. As I recall, for 6.2/6.3 there were custom-convert.conf and custom.types.conf files *outside* the main Alien folder, and so these files had to go in the main SlimDevices folder, not in the Plugins subfolder. For 6.5, these two files still exist but are inside the Alien folder, and so do not need anything special done to them, one only has to put the Alien folder into the Plugins folder. I think the needed change in the instructions is that, where I originally said "the custom-types.conf and slimserver-convert.conf files, if they exist (which they do for the 6.2 and 6.3 version of AlienBBC, but not for the 6.5 version) simply go into the SlimDevices folder" it should read "the custom-types.conf and slimserver-convert.conf files, if they exist outside the Alien folder (which they do for the 6.2 and 6.3 version of AlienBBC, but not for the 6.5 version) simply go into the SlimDevices folder" I'm not sure if I got the name wrong (slimserver-convert.conf as against custom-convert.conf) or if there was a change of name. I think the instructions do also need updating about where to get mplayer. There has been a thread about mplayer for 10.3.x, which seems to need a different version from 10.4.x, and also I am not sure if there are separate versions for Intel and PPC Macs on 10.4.x. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38934 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
