With 7.3, AlienBBC installation is supported via the new Extension Downloader included with the server. The latest version of Alien (2.4a2) is already available via this this mechanism and you should use it it to install Alien if you are using 7.3. (We will probably also make this version available for 7.2, but it will take us slightly longer to get it hosted on the alien web site)
To install: 1) go to the server settings page "Extension Downloader", this is available from the "Advanced" tab of the setting web pages. 2) tick the checkbox for AlienBBC and select Apply and agree to download the software. This will cause the correct version of Alien for your server to be downloaded and installed. 3) restart your server, i.e. actually stop and restart the squeezecenter application (not the browser window). On windows this can be achieved by selecting stop and then restart from the SqueezeTray icon in the windows toolbar. Alien requires mplayer to stream Real Audio streams. It will report whether mplayer is installed and can be found by Alien on the AlienBBC setting web page once the server is restarted. Windows: The windows version of Alien will also automatically download mplayer and install it for you when the plugin is first installed and the server is restarted. This download comes direct from the main www.mplayerhq.hu web site. When you install Alien you may not be able to play Real Audio streams for 2-5 minutes after you restart the server until mplayer is fully downloaded. During this time the setting page will report that mplayer is downloading. Please be patient and wait for mplayer to be fully installed. If the server fails to download mplayer the first time, you may find this is resolved by restarting the server as the download is only initiated on a server restart. Please check the status of mplayer and try this before reporting a bug with Alien. The windows settings page also includes a "test" link which allows you to test that mplayer has installed correctly and can be used to play real audio radio stations. Click "test" and it should start a new command window (which will appear minimised at the bottom of your screen) this will show the mplayer output and should after 30 seconds or so start playing radio2 from the speaker so your windows machine. If this does not happen then check for any error messages in the command window and post them to this forum. Mac: Alien will not install mplayer for you. Please download and install the version of mplayer for mac available on the mplayer web site: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayerOSX_1.0rc2.dmg Alien should find mplayer if you extract the mplayer install to the standard location for mac by dragging the application into the application folder. Once you have done this you can check it is in available to mplayer by looking at the Alien settings web page. Linux: Alien will not install mplayer for you. Please install mplayer using the appropriate method for your distribution. For example, on unbuntu this is 'sudo apt-get install mplayer-nogui'. New features in 2.4a2: - Update iPlayer web parsers due to web site changes. - update Local radio & regional radio handling to iPlayer web page formats - removed WhatsOn Addon as BBC no longer updates the web page - iPlayer schedules now provides similar info - Add radio 3 ident to ignore list in Settings.pm - Add ability to disable bandwidth parameter from settings page (removing need to change custom-convert.conf for installations which require this) - Add windows mplayer test from settings page - Revert unix version to -cache size of 128 for streaming to players as flac Please post any problems and issues as a new post in this forum. Please also provide feedback on how well the new extension downloader install for Alien works. The AlienBBC Team. -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56292 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
