> > Tne radio streams go via Mplayer don't they? > No they don't. MP3 stream go direct from source to the player - Squeezecenter will do nothing unless "proxied" has been selected for the player. Mplayer is only used for those format which are not supported by SB such as RealAudio and AACplus ( and WMA in the case of Softsqueeze with a Linux host).
> > However, again I never had this problem on SS6.5/SSq3.4 and could mess > with BBC streams without any need to 'poke' the system to make it go! > Agreed but there has been a *lot* of code changes in both SC and in Softsqueeze (sync code) - perhaps there is now an issue in startup. Going forward, Softsqueeze will have to be maintained as a community project and not a Slim project. > > I've zapped my SS6.5 install .exe so can't go back - where can I got > it now - I want to re-test with previous versions. > Take your pick from here http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/ > > Sorry my queries are a bit wooly - need a better understanding of the > architecture of this stuff - do you know if there's a doc somewhere > that details the data/stream paths and formats involved for typical > playing scenarios? and how these relate to the file types settings > page. > Look at the logging output especially from player.source and say plugins.alienbbc get a feel for how different stream formats are processed. Enable/disable different filetypes and look what is happening. If you are on Windows use Process Explorer to see what subprocesses are created and look at their command lines. > > Are the various Perl scripts involved in the plugins themselves > processing/piping stream/audio data, or are they only constructing > command lines for and starting other processes - eg Mplayer? > Generally no processing once stream has started except perhaps for displaying metadata such as song info or handling skip ffwd/rewd. The plugins mainly just find the url to be played and after that the filetype and convert conf files take over. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45301 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
