Ive been banging my head against a wall trying to get Alien BBC and mplayer up and running on my Linkstation Pro (V1)
Im running Squeezecenter 7.0.1 on a Freelink Linkstation Pro. I managed to upgrade my Linkstation from SS 6.5.4 to SC7 without a clean reinstall so my relevant directories are /mnt/disk1/usr/src/squeezcenter/server /mnt/disk1/usr/src/squeezcenter/server/Plugins /mnt/disk1/usr/src/squeezcenter/server/Plugins/Alien And mplayer.sh is in /mnt/disk1/usr/src/squeezcenter/server/Plugins/Alien/Bin And custom-convert.conf is in /mnt/disk1/usr/src/squeezcenter/server/Plugins/Alien/ Ive made mplayer.sh executable by squeezecenter and I have all the AlienBBC functionality on the Squeezebox menus etc and the File Types menu RTSP line has the mplayer/flac and mplayer active So I think this is installed correctly I have compiled mplayer on my Linkstation starting with a source tarball of MPlayer-1.0rc2 with the fixed point cook decoder math routines. The MPlayer-1.0rc2 directory is in squeezecenter/server As the compile takes for ever and I only want audio playback I used the following flags in /configure to speed things up a bit. ./configure --target=armv5tel-linux-gnu --enable-armv5te --disable-mencoder --language=en,de,fr --disable-jpeg --disable-gif --disable-tga --disable-liblzo --disable-tv --disable-dvb --disable-sdl --disable-pnm --disable-xvid --disable-toolame --disable-mad --disable-png --disable-vm --enable-md5sum --disable-menu --charset=US-ASCII --disable-dvdread --disable-tv --disable-bitmap-font --disable-freetype --disable-fontconfig The good news is mplayer seems to compile OK . Lots of warnings etc but it all finishes and I can do the make install and I can run mplayer from a command prompt in an appropriate directory and it seems to run OK, it detects a BBC Live stream and after failing to find a codecs pack it picks the hard coded built in ffmpeg cook decoder to decode and starts playback. Alas no sound. I think it is all down to the output configuration. Ive done a bit of research and investigation running mplayer in v-v-v mode etc and it looks as though it never picks up the direction to the custom-convert.conf file and fails to configure output to dev/fd/3. Ive tested my Linkstation and it looks as though my Freelink Debian Linkstation does have an /dev/fd/3 so I have not persued the mplayer-stdout route. I note though that there are lines in the mplayer log that show that mplayer cannot find the input.conf file note input.conf not custom-convert.conf I tried a symlink but nothing doing. As for output there are lines saying it is trying to open dev/dsp for audio out and after failing to find that maybe trying to open something else and finally settling for something like dev/ r4_dsat_g2.ra I have no idea where it gets this from but it attempts to stream output to it and fails. I think this is a directories or permissions thing or the default installer in MPlayer-1.0rc2 making a mess of the install and not coupling with the Alien mplayer.sh and custom-convert.conf Can anyone shed any light or offer any simple instructions for Alien and mplayer install and config on the Linkstation Pro which has an armv5 Marvell Orion chip with no fpu Thanks in advance Eddie -- jwepugh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jwepugh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1606 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47999
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