To test SC from a command line. 1. Open a terminal window logged in as root - make sure the terminal window has a large buffer so that the displayed messages can be copied later. 2. To stop SC running in the background /etc/init.d/squeezecenter stop 3. To run standard install of SC on Ubuntu 9.04 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/squeezecenter-server --prefsdir /var/lib/squeezecenter/prefs --logdir /var/log/squeezecenter/ --cachedir /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache --charset=utf8 --user=squeezecenter 4. To restart background - first CTRL/C to stop SC and then /etc/init.d/squeezecenter start
You should check the above sequence out before making the changes below to the Alien custom-convert.conf. When checking it out do a test run of playing an BBC station. In the message that appear on the console you should see the following message interleaved with normal log message - the mplayer.sh messages will have no time stamps. Streaming: Launching mplayer -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -bandwidth 10000000 -cache 128 -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao pcm:file=/dev/fd/3 rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/farm/live24/bbc_ami/radio1/radio1_nb_int_live.ra?BBC-UID=746aa35a8b566dd576d654c3c141518241d33cc350b00114042f94b638e0de4a&SSO2-UID= mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory To get more info from mplayer in mplayer.sh - do the following. 1. Edit the Alien custom-convert.conf file usually found in /var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/Alien 2. remove the "-really-quiet" from the "rtsp flc" line. 3. Save the file. Run SC from the command line as detailed above - copy the resulting messages from mplayer to post. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65473 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
