After one year of intense meditation, I finally got to the bottom of my problem and got it working - mostly.
The key lies in 'this ancient thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26727 ): - the problem being that mplayer does not support writing to stdout, and the DiskStation does not have /dev/fd/XX to work around this elegantly. I'm pretty sure there must be a way to access or create the fd devices or equivalent, but I have no clue as to how, so named pipes it is. The good news, there's no need to hunt for mkfifo as Synology provides mknod to do the job. As for the "RTSP" entries under WebUI Settings/Advanced/Filetypes, I've come to disable anything but FLAC, as it turns out this works best for me and with reasonable CPU and bandwidth requirements. MP3 with lame gives me crackling noises, hiccups and drop-outs, while ffmpeg hogs 100% CPU, and both never really crossed the finishing line. PCM works, but it seems shoving around the uncompressed data stream pushes the DS to its limits as well. And lastly, I found no way to make the SB Server actually select the WAV conversion option. FLAC works nice enough, although not exactly what I'd call robust: seeking in a stream works only occasionally, and sometimes the odd mplayer process is left running in the wild. Also there's no artwork displayed at all, not even the default transmitter mast symbol for generic radio. Anyway, I'm happy that finally, I can listen to 'The Prairie Home Companion' (http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/) on my Squeezeboxes! I'm attaching my edited realmplayer.sh and custom-convert.conf files from the PlayReal directory for reference. Mind you, they are dirty hacks and come with no warranty obviously. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: playreal-ds207.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12636| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- haschmich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ haschmich's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41882 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74989 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
