I'm posting this here in the hope that it'll help other people in getting AlienBBC and mplayer to work on Debian x86_64 and other Linux systems.
These instructions assume you're using a base install of Debian Etch, and have SqueezeCenter installed from the Debian package. YMMV. What you need: 1. A daily build of RealPlayer for x86_64, which can be found here: http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/?category=realplay-current 2. MPlayer. You'll need to build it from source, I used the latest snapshot release. 3. AlienBBC. 4. The attached custom-convert.conf and mplayer.sh. Installation: 1. Install RealPlayer by running Bin/setup to a system-wide readable directory, such as /usr/local/RealPlayer. 2. Build MPlayer, making sure to tell it where the codecs/ directory of your RealPlayer installation is by giving the following options to configure: "--realcodecsdir=/usr/local/RealPlayer/codecs --enable-real" 3. Unpack AlienBBC to /usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins. 4. Install FLAC if not already installed with: "apt-get install flac" 5. Replace the (32bit) copy of flac provided by SqueezeCenter with the system one: "dpkg-divert --local --rename /usr/share/squeezecenter/Bin/i386-linux/flac" "ln -s /usr/bin/flac /usr/share/squeezecenter/Bin/i386-linux/flac" 6. Replace custom-convert.conf and Bin/mplayer.sh in /usr/share/squeezecenter/Plugins/Alien with the provided versions. Explanation (or, why don't the out of the box instructions work?): Step 5 above is needed since the .deb supplied by SlimDevices provides a dynamically linked 32bit 'flac', and my system doesn't have the 32bit libraries installed. The custom-convert.conf and mplayer.sh fix a problem with getting MPlayer to write to standard output. The solution used in the stock files provided by AlienBBC mysteriously fails for me with MPlayer complaining about not being able to open /dev/fd/3, so I modified the wrapper script to use named pipes instead. -- mato ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mato's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17435 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47482 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
