Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-16 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: Play the stream in VLC GUI and look at message windows set to level 2 - VLC sepnds loads of time just trying to figure out how these stream should be played as they are not what HLS was intended. ffplay is not transcoding MP3 into flac nor fixing mono/stereo bug (after having to

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-15 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: That makes no sense because the -t s2 command on SOX tell it to output PCM S16le without a WAV header (this would be -t wav) but I'm beyond worrying about this setup. } If you look at the original config file ( Message #25) you will see that it is all the same output for PCM and

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-14 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: This is a nightmare setup between the HLS streams, Windows and VLC bugs complicated by you SB player. I have wasted too much time on this and have to had to setup a window system to verify what is going on. Please email the broadcasters and then tell to use normal streams

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-13 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: Why didn't you change the dst=#PIPE# like I suggested ? Sorry missed that one, is this what you mean, put the PIPE in the transcode. Code: xplay flc * * # F:{PATH=%f}R:{PATH=%F} [VLC media player.lnk] -I dummy -q --no-sout-video --sout

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-13 Thread mitrih
# XPlay xplay flc * * # F:{PATH=%f}R:{PATH=%F} [vlc] -I dummy --dummy-quiet $PATH$ :sout=#transcode{acodec=flac,channels=2,ab=128,samplerate=44100}:standard{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=-} The third URL (i.e. the radiotime one) should be played as

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-13 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: Please read the post - the Bin directory must be linked to the VLC directory and it is a directory link not a shortcut lnk type link. - using just a link to vlc.exe will not work anmds is a waster to time. If the directory link did not work for you then you have made a mistake

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-12 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: All below are quick hacks and am sure there is unnecessary code/rubbish there. With these files and the Xplay plugin the 3 stream played OK on LMS for 10 secs - they may break down on longer playing. For command line/batch file use cvlc and not vlc - this avoids some

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-11 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: Whoever is creating these streams need to get to a basic internet education. These streams seems to be DIY stream using some sort of Apple server but the user has chosen live video H.264/MPEG streaming technology to transmit low grade audio the first two stream are ulitmatley

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-10 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: See http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17201 for MP4 podcast although my patch did not fix it fully. There is also a conf file for ffmpeg. I noticed that a lot of the new streams with m3u8 extensions can be opened with ffplay and not with mplayer. Thanks to Bpa xplayer

Re: [slim] Any ideas why this stream won't play?

2014-08-10 Thread mitrih
bpa wrote: AFAICT ffplay is a media player built with ffmpeg libraries - i,e. it will play to the audio device and video of the host system not give access to decoded stream. You do not want that in LMS - you want to redirect decoded stream into LMS - so you have to use using ffmpeg not