csimon;575328 Wrote: > Yes, it worked by mapping a drive letter instead of using a UNC path. > But it's still not perfect...
Mapping to a drive letter is only a temporary fix; and I think I know what to do to make a "proper" fix... csimon;575328 Wrote: > Initially, songs wouldn't play at all until I copied lame.exe into the > Squeeze program directory. That's odd - isn't that only needed if > there is transcoding?? All my files are MP3s and the media box > supports MP3s. However they are variable bit rate - I wonder if that > makes a difference? According to the DLNA specification, the single default "must support" audio format is 16 bit LPCM. All other formats like MP3, FLAC, or whatever, are optional. According to the DLNA specification, the server must "offer" all media formats that it can support (and currently Whitebear offers LPCM, MP3, FLAC, WAV, and native formats). And the player must select from the offerred list the one it chooses to download. -- That is the theory. -- Now in practice, I discovered that many players are lazy and just choose the first offerred format, namely the LPCM "must offer" format. => So I guess your players are asking Whitebear for LPCM. => Which means that Whitebear must transcode the MP3 files to LPCM. => Which means that you need Lame.exe installed. (In my opinion, this is a complete waste of bandwidth and CPU cycles, but that is just the way DLNA specification works...) csimon;575328 Wrote: > Songs stop after a while on their own. The symptom of the WD HD TV Live > box is that it halts and skips to the next track. It's random where > they stop, it can be after a few seconds or it can be a minute or two. > But it's always in the same place for each song. > > Anyway, I got that working but I had exactly the same symptoms on this > PC. The same songs stop in exactly the same place. > > These MP3s play perfectly on the WD box via the UPnP server in my NAS > unit. > > It's really weird isn't it! Well, given the above, it is not really weird at all. I guess that what is happening is that the Lame transcoder may be encountering something in your MP3 files that it does not like, and this causes Lame to terminate at that point. => Perhaps you can give me a link to one of your MP3 files so I can test and confirm this diagnosis? (I dont have many MP3s myself because I prefer lossless formats..) csimon;575328 Wrote: > Seek also doesn't seem to be implemented yet in Whitebear? I can't fast > forward or rewind. Correct. Seek is not yet supported when playing to non native players. It is a question of programming the various command line switches for the transcoders. (This is work-in-progress.) But seek DOES work 1) when you Play To a Squeeze player, and 2) when the player does its own local buffering (as for example WMP12 does). csimon;575328 Wrote: > foobar2000: Can select an item to play on the renderer but it doesn't > start. I was testing it with my development snapshot last night, and fooBar does now work fine. I will release the development snapshot soon (but preferably after I have had a chance to look at the above mentiond UNC issue and eventually the MP3 transcoding (assuming that is indeed the problem). csimon;575328 Wrote: > eezUPnP: Discovery works but cannot browse. As mentioned, my A/V does not trust this software, so I am not letting it anywhere near my PC... csimon;575328 Wrote: > Intel controller: Discovery doesn't work. I am in contact with Ylian Saint-Hilaire (the author of the Intel Tools). csimon;575328 Wrote: > Ciderio: Discovery & browsing works (although strangely, the Artist menu > isn't populated, only the Albums menu), can play an item on the renderer > and it plays through to completion. So this is the only combination that > works so far for me! In my tests, on some native players (like the Intel one), Ciderio fails to show the track tag data and play position; also the volume and mute controls don't work. Concerning the Artist menu: can you confirm that with your MP3s, the Artist menu does work on Squeezebox native players and UIs? i.e. Maybe this is a tagging issue rather than a functionality issue? -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80632 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
