May be there is something wrong to the process running in the background with an ampersand (&) ?
If you wanted to get rid of the terminals and still run it the way you do. Bring up the non-graphical login screen on Ubuntu run one process on ALT-CTRL-F2 and the other on ALT-CTRL-F3. To return to the graphical environment hit ALT-CTRL-F7 (where your Rdairplay is running) On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Tom Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really a solution, but it has been working for us for nearly 3 months > now :) Also on Ubuntu 10.04 with 1.72 here... I just leave two terminal > windows running in the background - one for streamupdate.sh and and I > manually start the netcat process with settings in the other, for example: > > netcat -k -u -l 6868 > /home/user/streamdata/song.dat > > It's not especially elegant as there's a two terminal windows there, but > most of our presenters only use RDAirplay anyway so it isn't an issue for us > at present. > > Come to mention it, I was testing this on another machine the other day, and > netcat did die for me whenever it was launched from a script. I.e. it would > save one title update to the song.dat file but would then end. Thought > nothing of it as I was just experimenting, but could be an issue with > ubuntu/netcat maybe? > > I seem to remember Fred G mentioned something about RLMs for now/next data, > does anyone know if RD 2.X RLMs will work with 1.72? Or am I just being > daft? > > HTH > > Tom Dawson > FANTASY RADIO > www.fantasyradio.co.uk > > > On 10/05/2012 12:32, Geoff Barkman wrote: >> >> I've been following the instructions on the Rivendell Wiki. >> >> >> http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Streaming_from_Rivendell#Icecast2.2FShoutcast_Meta_Data_from_Rivendell >> >> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Rivendell 1.72 >> But netcat dies after a few mins of sending track titles to a shoutcast >> server. >> >> I've modified as per the instructions... >> >> NOTE: If you are using Ubuntu 10.04, due to changes in the netcat of >> this version, you'll have to change the options passed to "nc" in the >> "song.sh" file. Change >> >> netcat -l -u -p $port> $songdat& >> >> to >> >> netcat -k -u -l $port> $songdat& >> >> >> Anyone else had this problem and how did you solve it? >> >> Many thanks >> Geoff >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Tom Dawson >> Fantasy Radio >> www.fantasyradio.co.uk _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
