Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayDASH Plugin
Hi odw199, Great to see this. Thanks for your work; it validates many people's investment in Squeezebox as well as your own :) I haven't seen a DASH stream yet in the wild either, but if I come across one I'll certainly give it a whirl and let you know. Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103204 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)
castalla wrote: I'm experiencing the same dropout/buffering on a previous working pi setup. Has something changed at the BBC end??? At a guess, I'd say a lot more people are now consuming the streams, now that they know how, so contention is going up. I've known how for a couple of days but didn't try it out until just now. Not sure whether it's Auntie or the CDNs you need to see about that, but I guess you could try switching CDNs to see if the other is doing better (switch between 'ak' and whatever the other one is in the URL). Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)
bpa wrote: As I understand it, a good reason is to get away from rebuffering (which users hate) - HLS/HDS/DASH all allow for changing bitrates while a stream is playing so if backbone network gets overloaded or just the user home wifi gets slow - the server will be able to choose to send a slower bit rate audio stream fragement for the duration of the overload so eliminate/minimise rebuffering. It will also probably enable servers to be more efficient. Side effect is that audio quality could vary during a live transmission - that'll be the issue BBC has to get right. That sounds horrendous. A more-or-less listenable stream repeatedly descending into compressed, dishwasher-in-a-bag squelch. Yummy. I think I'd rather have the gaps. As for the issue the BBC has to get right: well, given their performance of late with anything they *should* have gotten right (and in many cases a five-year-old could have gotten right), my hopes aren't high. Big thumbs-up to the agitators on the BBC thread who managed to get the BBC mob talking to Triode. Here's hoping something comes of that, it could be a real scalp for this community if Auntie is actually seen to be listening to us. Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
ralphy;664656 Wrote: You can checkout 3.9b2 from the sourceforge cvs. See the bottom of the download page for details http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/download.html Ah, thanks - I never made it to the bottom of that page (but then the message at the top doesn't really encourage one to do so!) Well, if anyone's interested, the experiment was a success. After grabbing the source from CVS, I added mp3plugin.jar into the lib/ directory with the other third-party jars, and added it to the various places those libs are mentioned in the build.xml file (the two items where they are listed in the classpath for building, which may or may not be essential, and a signjar/ tag below the others which I'm pretty sure is). Then I built it with ant dist, edited the dist/common/softsqueeze.jnlp to identify the host my SBS is on, and uploaded the dist/common/ folder to my webserver. On running the jnlp from the server and viewing the Settings dialog, the selected mp3 decoder is preset to Java MP3 Plugin, so it appears to have worked as hoped. DISCLAIMER: This will be only for my own use, and I won't distribute the built app to anyone else. To my understanding, this means I'm not violating the license of either Softsqueeze or the Java MP3 Plugin, but IANAL so don't take my word for it. -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
Hi, I don't know how alive this thread or BPA's work are at this stage, but I have a point to add and a question to raise, if I may. Both are related to the Java MP3 Plugin. Point: The most recently-posted link above for the plugin now goes to an Oracle page for a larger bundle of multimedia-stuff. I found a link for the MP3 plugin alone, at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-java-client-419417.html#javamp3-1_0-oth-JPR Question: Is there any way the MP3 plugin can be included into the Softsqueeze applet/jnlp when deployed from one's own server, instead of the client having to download and add it to their Java install? Note I appreciate the licensing issues, but I'm only talking about individuals being able to include it by themselves for their own use. (As long as only I use the applet, I believe I'm still honouring the license for the plugin, no?) I realise the plugin is only available compiled, but can it somehow be supplied along with the main Softsqueeze applet, or does it have to be properly installed in the client's JRE? -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
Hi mkanet, Yes I understand that's why it cannot be distributed with Softsqueeze, but what I'm trying to suggest (perhaps poorly) is that if it were technically possible for me, as an end-user, to re-pack the softsqueeze .jar with the mp3plugin .jar inside (so that Softsqueeze would use it if present), then as long as I don't re-distribute the resulting .jar to anyone else, then I am not violating the license for either component. I have come across this at least once before, where the source of an application came with a simple instruction to place the required library in a given subfolder and make a small edit to another source file in order to make use of that library in the resulting app when built. That was also a Java app, but the lib in question was available as source, so I don't know if the same trick will work with the MP3 plugin as it's precompiled and source is unavailable. That's really what I'm asking: is it possible techically, and if so could I get any pointers on how to set it up? -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
Hi bpa, thanks for the info on current situation. I should reiterate, though, that I'm not concerned with any issues of licensing: I assert (though you may disagree) that license incompatibility is irrelevant if I build a combined package myself for my own use, because no distribution occurs. By supplied in the sentence you quote, I mean supplied by me from my own HTTP server to my own browser, that's all. Should have phrased that better. If I can get hold of newer source (there's no source with the sourceforge release and the slimdevices svn is, as you say, 3.7 only) then I'll try to make some sense of it myself. Even absent that, perhaps I'll get lucky with some trial-and-error on the binaries. -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze 3.9 beta for testing
Yes, after seeing those I hoped I could perhaps just add the mp3plugin.jar to the /lib folder with those others, and name it in the META_INF/MANIFEST.MF file in the SoftSqueeze.jar and in the jnlp file, but alas not so simple :( The jar is unsigned, which makes the webstart fail. Self-signing it would be the next step, but I'll have to work out how that's done as that's new to me. If that succeeds, we'll see whether there is more to the problem than that alone... -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62060 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC streams not starting
Hi, I'm setting up slimserver while I wait for my SB3 to arrive, and installed both slimserver-6.5.4 and alienbbc-1.06 on my Gentoo server from the ebuilds available in portage. Playing my mp3s to realplayer or VLC on my Linux laptop worked perfectly, and I've also had success with podcastalley.com playback. But the BBC streams are a no-go. By following the instructions on the ripcaster website I can successfully play a stream on the server in mplayer, although there is no sound setup so I can't verify that the sound is OK. When I select a stream to play in the web UI, the player status switches to STOPPED. Running 'ps ax', there's no sign of mplayer.sh being called. Attachment below is output of running slimserver.pl in a terminal with --d_plugins. Please ask if you'd like any other outputs or system info. Thanks in advance :) +---+ |Filename: slimdbg.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3191| +---+ -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37934 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC streams not starting
Works like a charm! Thanks for the info, I wish I'd just asked here straight away, instead of all the time I spent trying to debug it today :( -- Havin_it Havin_it's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37934 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
