Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.5.2 beta test

2018-06-07 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Be careful the above patches may only be valid for 1.3 - with the DASH > implementation I think I took out most RadioVIS stuff for live info and > used the radioplayer metadata instead for live info, I left the VFD > display code unchanged. I wasn't suggesting that the patch

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.5.2 beta test

2018-06-07 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Good you found a custom solution. > > I have done nothing to VFD display as I am not familiar with VFD display > code and as it affects Boom,Transporter and SB2/3/Classic, I can't test > all layouts (line1,2,3 top, bottom, 2nd display and also varies on > display font & size

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2017-04-06 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > The test stream is at > https://vs-dash-ww-rd-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/al/lossless/client_manifest.mpd > > Not sure if it will ourtside the UK and whether ti will work as a http > not https. > > If they did it properly - it could be easy. If they hacked it will be > very hard.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Play Windows Media Plugin - mplayer 100% cpu

2016-03-06 Thread utgg
cgi wrote: > For some reason my last reply went to moderation, perhaps because I > replied while you were editing the quote or the TuneIn URL (which I've > now obfuscated just in case), I don't know. > > I remember finding that ffmpeg page when messing around with this > before. I wonder why I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer Plugins - an alternative quick fix guide

2016-01-11 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Does anybody have any idea why this is needed ? The user said they are > using 7.9 which IIRC has all the usual "faad" issues resolved. I don't think 7.9 yet includes the updated faad.exe for windows that was needed because some on-demand programmes wouldn't work. I think that is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
RalphO wrote: > I have not been to this site for quite some time and I am rusty about > some of the new developments. When I last visited it was to fiond a fix > when BBC Iplayer stopped working due to the feed being stopped. I > thought I had everything working again but now the Listen Again

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
With the latest change, in the uk the 'Use highest bitrate available DASH stream' actually gives the lowest (i.e. 96kbps). The 'Use lowest bitrate available DASH stream' gives 128kpbs. I.e. we've lost the 320kbps! utgg's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
If it helps, this is what the uk radio_three mpd looks like: Code: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns="urn:mpeg:dash:schema:mpd:2011" xmlns:dvb="urn:dvb:dash:dash-extensions:2014-1" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:mpeg:dash:schema:mpd:2011

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Accord to BBC HTML5 beta site page - DASH is only used for OnDemand - so > we are at the "bleeding edge" ahead of the BBC maybe. > > My cable TV box shows the current live program info even when I time > shift back. > > edit: > > Currently if I listen live- I can go back to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Thanks but I think this is a bit complicated. My preference is to turn > off live info for the moment. > > I'm wary about using the > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/availability/radio3.xml because IIRC this > is a deprecated interface. That said, I had thought about using this to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-30 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Can a UK user of 1.4.5 try the following code change to fix the picking > the min / max rates. > > in file DASH.pm about line 515 the code - change the "*cmp*" to "*<=>*" > (change "bandwdith" sort criteria from text comparison to numeric > comparison) > > Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-25 Thread utgg
Just a small thing. For completeness it would perhaps be good to include mrw's patch for fixing the 'More Info' display of file format and bitrate. Patch description is here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)=817083=1#post817083. The bit to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-25 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: > If I'm not mistaken the same URL was used for both UK and nonUK with the > HLS streams so maybe the BBC aren't going to start a specific World > Service UK stream. As has been pointed out the bitrates are the same so > with that in mind it may be expedient to use the nonuk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-25 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > There is a feature of BBC DASH live streams I'm scared to consider > because I think the UI implications are very involved and would affect > all UIs - make it really hard to test. > > For live streams BBC support 2hrs playback - AFAICT playing any live > stream can be told to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-25 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Only Extra has the "Live" program schedule - so that could be done off > the Extras plugin. The use case I considered was the user who just > wants to back a few minutes - possibly to repeat a bit of dialogue in a > play or book or an interview where the speaker was indistinct o >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-24 Thread utgg
badsoden wrote: > Two Squeezebox radios. I have tried selecting the station with orange > squeeze on my mobile and the menu on the radio itself. In both cases in > the menu list the new images are displayed but after I select the > station the old image displays on the radio as well as in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-24 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > That is odd assuming you are using 1.4.4 - what error is showing ? What > "Live" setting are you using ? It's just the UK url that has some problem - the mpd is valid, but the stream segments return 501 error. I assumed this is a temporary problem that the BBC will eventually fix,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > This is where we differ. When using BBCiPlayerExtra 1.9.2 and the > Setting "disable DASH" is unchecked - I can play streams from Extra and > iPlayer all in DASH. Done a bit more investigation. If you look at my log here:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
ftlight wrote: > The only thing missing is Listen Live for World Service, which I know > utgg mentioned earlier in this thread. I do use this fairly often - I > worked as an engineer at BBC Bush House as my first job out of > university before I moved to New York, and continu

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > No need to go to 7.9 - my daily system is 7.8 - I only have a 7.9 for > testing. > > Don't play with the Extra settings - they are not quite right yet. > What player are you using ? > Are you in the UK ? I'm in the UK, and 1.9.1 BBCiPlayerExtras won't work for me. Without

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > I think some setting is stuck somewhere or clashing but I can't see > which. > > Can you enable logging plugin.bbciplayer to INFO. Note the time and > then try to play a program that you have not played before via an Extras > menu. > > Then can you play the same program through

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
Raymond Woodward wrote: > Well the best I can do here is to have BBCiPlayer live DASH @320k and > replay previous shows @128k HLS and have BBCiPlayer Extra 320k > FlashAAC. > > If I set BBCiPlayer on demand to DASH I loose iPlayer extra. > > Even tried deleting both pref files as well as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-23 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > I have just uploaded BBCiPlayer 1.4.4 and BBCiPlayerExtra 1.9.3 > All seems good now. utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-22 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > I didn't try hard to find World service - I reckon it can wait. You've done well to find the live URLs as it is! bpa wrote: > I think the issue with AAC is that the DASH stream is an MPEG ISOBMFF > format (Streaming MPEG4) which has to be changed into an ADTS format for > SB

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-22 Thread utgg
I see the icons have reverted to the smaller size images that don't look so good scaled up in size. I've attached a modified menu.opml that has the bigger 600x600 icons that Bonze found - if you'd like to include this in the next release (I've also included CBeeBies radio, for good measure).

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-22 Thread utgg
kidstypike wrote: > Deleted Triode repository URL - no joy. > > Deleted Cache.db - no good. > > Enabled logging as per your instruction. > > > Code: > > [15-11-22 12:23:03.5050] Slim::Plugin::Extensions::Plugin::_parseXML (496) found 102 extensions[15-11-22

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-22 Thread utgg
Raymond Woodward wrote: > Interestingly those play here (96kbps CBR) Squeezebox Duet LMS 7.81 > Windows 10 1511. > > -- > > Ray BPA: I've determined that these are 24KHz sampling rate streams (from the esds atom), even though the .mpd reports audioSamplingRate="48000".

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer with DASH support - test version

2015-11-22 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > The error is due to the fact that audio encoding is SBR (Audio Object > type 5) - an ADTS header has only 2 bits of encoding so the SBR usually > gets lost= and become AAC Main which Touch and Radio cannot play. > > I downloaded a problem programs (Composer of the Week). Converted

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-21 Thread utgg
badsoden wrote: > Any idea's why one of my players won't update and display the new > images? What's the player? Is it still displaying the previous images? Have you trying deleting the cache.db file and restarting LMS?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-15 Thread utgg
Giza2020 wrote: > Hi guys could someone please help me with the code to put cbeebies radio > into the menu opml? > > This is the url as far as i can tell. But I'm not sure where the logo > is found or how to point it to that location. > > I can see it needs to start with outline and then I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-14 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > The BBC haven't announced DASH for Radio and AFAIK none of their > standard players (i.e.Browser - can't test Android or iOS outside UK) > are using the DASH streams. In other words I think it is effectively a > limited public beta trial and its implementation may yet change and so

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-11 Thread utgg
JohnB wrote: > This business of what bit rate is available seems rather odd. > > On Radio 3 and Radio 4 (the only two I have looked at) the BBC iPlayer > flash client indicates that the stream is 320 kbps, HDS from the > limelight server. That usually (but not always) tallies with the >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-10 Thread utgg
Raymond Woodward wrote: > That link seems to work OK, excellent. Updating the vpid to p0377djj > > http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/vpid/p0377djj/mediaset/mobile-tablet-main/proto/http > gives me Radio Solent football coverage via playHLS > > > That is going to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-09 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Yes but you need to add the URL to either the BBCiPlayer menu.opml > (although it is a bit complicated) or if you have the playHLS plugin > installed - it will play as a Favorite > > The URL is >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC Music Jazz through iPlayer plugins?

2015-11-09 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Why use "aod" rather than "live" ? Good point. I don't think it actually makes any difference though. utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-09 Thread utgg
bonze wrote: > Some more logos... > These are a bit plainer, are 5 different sizes, 3 square & two oblong - > but exist for all stations including local > > For example: > http://radio-service-information.api.bbci.co.uk/logos/bbc_6music/32x32.png > > Replace the station name with the usual

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-08 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Not sure if this was already known but it seems BBC have some now > playing info available for live stations. > > For experimenters, there seems to be JSON feed possibly for each station > of what is playing. > > http://polling.bbc.co.uk/radio/realtime/bbc_6music.jsonp >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-08 Thread utgg
bonze wrote: > Some more logos... > These are a bit plainer, are 5 different sizes, 3 square & two oblong - > but exist for all stations including local > > For example: > http://radio-service-information.api.bbci.co.uk/logos/bbc_6music/32x32.png > > Replace the station name with the usual

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer 'artwork' missing

2015-11-04 Thread utgg
Furry wrote: > Viewing via SBT. > > I did delete cache.db again, and restart LMS again - and just tried > those things again, but still no logos. In the lms web browser, see what url is displayed for e.g. "Home > BBC iPlayer > Listen Live > BBC Radio 1". It should be:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-02 Thread utgg
JustJust1 wrote: > Thanks BPA. > > One thing i am finding a bit annoying is the Res used on the BBC logos > for example the BBC one file it is > http://static.bbci.co.uk/mobileradioapp/1.3/android/images/stations/notification-logo/hdpi/bbc_radio_one.png > and only 18.5KB this looks fine in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-11-02 Thread utgg
gt; state until recently which has now brought this indecision to surface. mphearn wrote: > I there a reason why the plugin originator (utgg) could not add it to > the 3rd party plugins list in LMS Settings? PasTim wrote: > It would help if we had a way of distributing fixes more easily,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-10-29 Thread utgg
philippe_44 wrote: > BTW, if it can be of any help as a base, I've done a HLS handler in my > Pluzz plugin. The way I handle the m3u8 is hacky and very likely not > re-usable (I know that the server I'm using have all the fragments, so I > don't need to re-open a socket for each of them) but I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
castalla wrote: > Guess it means editing the menu file for iplayer I've updated the logos in my 'OnAir' patch for the BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha3 plugin here: '#3737' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)=814578=1#post814578). They are square,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: > It may surprise you to know that I don't know if I want or need all the > patches, and have no way of knowing. Most of the code is meaningless to > me and I don't know if the patches have changed since version 1 or not. > > So anyhow, I've re-installed the plugin and redone all

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: > Indeed. > > I haven't used the listen-again on BBCiPlayer for a while (using > BBCiPlayerExtra instead), and this is the wrong thread for this comment > (I'm not using PlayHLS), but nothing seems to play any more. Has > anything else changed? The icons are fine :) > > I was

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
Jeff07971 wrote: > > Have the listen again always been 127kbps ? The HLS ones have been since February. There were 320kbps HLS versions for a while, but they got 'phased out' when they started switching off the old wma/aac streams. You can still get 320kbps catch up using bpa's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > Shall I leave the fix to you ? I haven't anymore time until later on > tonight. > > My fix worked for me becuase the XMLin merged hls and dash content into > one link which is not correct but happened to remove the dash and leave > the hls - I think you're on the right track as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
Jeff07971 wrote: > I have retried bpa's and utgg's fixes. > > And with debug logging turned on both give the same error in LMS log:- > > [15-10-28 19:44:54.2042] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::iPlayer::scanUrl (64) > baseUrl: >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-10-28 Thread utgg
I've also had a play. Don't know how this compares to your patch, bpa, but I think the attached forces it to make sure the HLS rather than DASH url is picked up. +---+ |Filename: BBCXMLParser.pm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Installing Squeezeplug on a Raspberry PI 2

2015-06-23 Thread utgg
MrClive wrote: Thanks all, I've found these so far. Anyone used any of these? http://thepihut.com/products/usb-wifi-adapter-for-the-raspberry-pi http://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/accessories/wifi-dongles/wifi-dongle-nano-usb/?search=Wifi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC BERKSHIRE 320 HLS stream down?

2015-06-15 Thread utgg
radiostreamfan wrote: No VLC player not liking that either This works fine for me: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_berkshire.m3u8 whereas you original with upper case B didn't:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC BERKSHIRE 320 HLS stream down?

2015-06-14 Thread utgg
radiostreamfan wrote: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_Berkshire.m3u8 Whats causing it not to work? http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_norfolk.m3u8 This above works

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-05-20 Thread utgg
ian_heys wrote: Can anyone tell me how to recover the generic url of the commentary in this player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/32524234 So that I can play any of the url's that the BBC assign to the various county games throughout the season. The Player shows this stream

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: PlayHLS Plugin - plugin to play Apple HLS m3u8 stream

2015-05-20 Thread utgg
ian_heys wrote: Thanks both. I'd just trawled back to the original post when your replies started coming through. I have both Triode's alpha plug-in and bpa's Play HLS. I've derived the URL I need and although the format seems to have changed, it still plays:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-05-06 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: Semi-techie Windows user here! The way I've been installing all the patches so far is to modify the .pm file using Wordpad. It's usually explicit what and where the changes need to be made. I managed to alter the BBCXMLparser .pm file this way and I think it works Ok,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Conflict between 'BBC iPlayer' plugun and 'Dynamic Mix' plugin causing rebuffering

2015-05-05 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: The BBCiPlayer plugin plays HLS streams (live and listen again) which appear as an every changing playlist of small files each about 6-10 secs long. This is generally true of all the newer chunked HTTP technologies. Don't know if the BBCiPlayer plugin exposes the ongoing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-28 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: Attached is an abbreviated log running from re-start of the server to this morning. I edited out the middle section as it was just a repeat of what was already happening and it continues in the same pattern until the stream stop at 3:22 this morning..and no I wasn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-28 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: EDIT: As they say: Google is your friend. It might be unrelated but there appear to have been issues in the past with LMS caching all DNS requests even failed ones. So presumably because HLS requires constant lookups, when one does fail LMS will try and use the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-28 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: Thanks for looking. The OS is Win 7 and I use BT Infinity broadband through an Asus RT-N66U router. I've tried changing DNS servers from the default BT, to Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to see if that made a difference, and after your suggestion a few weeks ago ran a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-28 Thread utgg
flimflam wrote: Yes, it is variable. On Demand very often fails within the first minute, but it can sometimes last 2 mins, 4 mins, 10 mins before stopping. Attached is a log where it played for about 4 mins. The same thing happens for all of them: I can't tell how the line where it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-27 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: I'll revert to the original socketwrapper. I'm sure my settings are standard, no reason for them not to be, and the stream stops I refer to are all on the Radio and Touch which are synchronized, not through Squeeze2uPnP to the Naim. That also behaves in the same way but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-27 Thread utgg
bonze wrote: I see what you mean now, looks like new streams setup for the 'live events'. (using HDS) Can't see any other information on that page of how to listen via anything else but the webpage unfortunately Yep, they are returning HDS streams with the 'audio-syndication' mediaset.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-27 Thread utgg
flimflam wrote: On the stopping problem I am experiencing with Triode's Alpha plugin ('post + log here' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)p=816292viewfull=1#post816292)) - it seems OS X specific, it doesn't seem to happen at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-27 Thread utgg
flimflam wrote: Thank you very much utgg, appreciated. I think I did include plugin.bbciplayer.hls before, but here is another log with the other debugging too. That doesn't get very far at all - it's failing before it has even got the first few chunks buffered up. Does it ever get any

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: But why only Live and not On Demand (both HLS)? What's so different? That is a good question. There are several differences with On Demand - the chunks of audio are 10 seconds long rather than 6.4 seconds long, the bit rate will be different (I'm not sure what the non-uk On

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: I wonder if it's worth stepping back briefly and making sure what your system is, what works and what doesn't. This is just random imaginings, so please ignore if I'm off-beam. As I understand it: - your LMS is on a Windows VM in Microsoft's Azure Cloud, which reports

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-24 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: I assume the Groovesalad aac stream http://somafm.com/groovesalad130.pls plays OK as well. It could be associated with the burstiness of HLS. Do you get the EINTR message in the log on Ubuntu ? There are comment in Perl forums that after EINTR, the interrupted system call

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-23 Thread utgg
Owen Smith wrote: A while back I reported that the HLS AAC bit rate wasn't appearing in More Info on the Controller or Squeezeplay. Several others replicated my report, but HLS.pm extracts the bit rate so there's a disconnect somewhere in the code not passing it through to More Info. Did

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: I don't know what conhost is - it looks like something new since Vista and some sort of MS shim layer but since Groovesalad plays OK I don't think it is cause of problem. Since no CPU blips when using R4 - that seem to indictae that write of data tfrom LMS to socketwrapper's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
Using the alpha3 plugin, I've been seeing Radio 3 stopping frequently today. Anyone else seeing similar? This has made it a debugging opportunity... There is no DNS issue that I can see. It always stops with a '500 Internal Server Error' when doing an HTTP fetch of a playlist update. I'm only

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
psketch wrote: FYI - the old plugin didn't give me any similar problems - has the write routine changed between 1.2 and 1.3 - maybe that can point us in the right direction. Anything you'd like to me test/log? How the data is passed from the plugin to the LMS player streaming system is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
psketch wrote: Given that bpa sees the same thing, and that he's capture the logs, is there any other logging/debug that you want from me at the moment? pete S I've had a quick look at bpa's log. The timing is a little different to your case - it seems to take a lot longer before the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
PaulinPosset wrote: Can you let us know what the tweaks are? I've always had problems with the BBC streams stopping since the change to HLS despite everything else including Qobuz streaming without a hitch. Tried the different CDN, stream quality, and I still get drop-outs. At the weekend

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer Plugins - an alternative quick fix guide

2015-04-22 Thread utgg
wheresmebbc wrote: Sorry if this verges on topic hijacking but it does concern the broken BBC iPlayer. I have two Booms and a Touch and am using LMS based on a Synology DS412+. I live in Italy. The recent activity by the Beeb that has killed the once working radio iPlayer means that I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-21 Thread utgg
psketch wrote: Ah - you may have hit on something here. I have a number of different players. The one I noticed this on was a Receiver(Duet). But, I just tried the same steam on squeezlite on picoreplayer, and that's working fine. Switch back to the receiver - stops after 5 secs - back

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-21 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: I'm a bit confused. Did the stream play OK and you heard the audio and it played for say 1 minute without problems ? If so, then the log is showing what happnes when you try playing a BBCiPlayer live stream of R4. Just to be sure - you are not in the UK. There is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-20 Thread utgg
psketch wrote: Anyone got any ideas of what to rtry? Thanks pete S Could you try selecting debug logging for plugin.bbciplayer, plugin.bbciplayer.hls and network.asyncdns, and posting the resulting output from the server log. Since the Live streams stop so quickly, there shouldn't be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-16 Thread utgg
whitman wrote: Well, some interesting behaviour this evening. First, around 6:30pm, I started Bob Harris On Sunday, R2, BBCiPlayer. Stopped dead after about 6 minutes. Immediately restarted it, from the beginning: stopped dead about 8 minutes in. Not rebuffering: just a dead stop. Went

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-15 Thread utgg
whitman wrote: Utgg, I've been using Extras a bit more lately, but I first noticed the problem with the regular BBCiPlayer plugin. I'm pretty sure the prob affects both plugins. But I will check. About your test: I'm not sure I can resume playback on a SB classic, can I? You can

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-15 Thread utgg
whitman wrote: I usually listen to Listen Again stuff between about 6pm and 9pm (in south-west England), so that's roughly when it's been happening. Usually R2 or 6 Music, sometimes R3, occasionally R4. I've been trying to discern a pattern, and generally it seems to be about half an hour

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-13 Thread utgg
Owen Smith wrote: I was a bit concerned that the live text patches seemed to be using third party web sites that appear to have nothing to do with the BBC. How likely is that to continue working? If you are talking about my Live Text patch, it is using a BBC web site. It's using the BBC's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-13 Thread utgg
Owen Smith wrote: I really don't care about live text at all, I never looked at it when it did exist previously. I appreciate that others might. What I'd like to see is More Info on the Controller or SqueezePlay show the bit rate as well as File Format: AAC LC. I have no easy way at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBC iPlayer rebuffering

2015-04-12 Thread utgg
whitman wrote: I've fixed up my BBCiPlayer and BBCiPlayer Extras with the current versions, as posted elsewhere here, and all are working now. I'll take this opportunity to thank all involved. However, for some time before the fix and now afterwards, I've been plagued with rebufferings.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-06 Thread utgg
Owen Smith wrote: Windows by default ignores a TTL of zero and will cache the IP address anyway. Windows DNS caching assumes that DNS to IP address mappings hardly ever change. Some experiments. This is from my own 'C' HLS decode program running on both win7 and my ARM/linux NAS. The HTTP

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
Owen Smith wrote: Windows by default ignores a TTL of zero and will cache the IP address anyway. Windows DNS caching assumes that DNS to IP address mappings hardly ever change. I'm intrigued by all this. LMS does it's own DNS caching - if you enable network.asyncdns debug logging you can see

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: Being somewhat ignorant about such things, how can local Powerline adapters affect DNS? Can other local network factors affect this? Does the external DNS server used make any difference? I don't really know either, but he seemed to know what he was talking about. What he is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
Andy Cudlip wrote: OK, its there now. Before I copied your patch over the top, I made a copy of the BBC iPlayer folder (named C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins\Plugins\BBCiPlayer - Copy). As soon as I moved that out of the Plugins folder and restarted LMS, the extra option

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
Interesting information from 'off-tune' on the BBC Audio Factory blog. For any that seem to suffer instability/buffering in playing HLS streams, it is possible you may have a DNS issue in your local system. In his case it was being caused by Powerline adapters. Now I've looked, the resolved ip

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
bonze wrote: Would switching to limelight make any difference? Possibly, but the limelight URL redirects with '302 Moved Temporarily' code (so the redirection shouldn't be remembered if the HTTP implementation is behaving properly), and therefore requires two dependent HTTP fetches for each

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
Andy Cudlip wrote: Hi I'm not seeing the 'Show OnAir Text' option. I updated to alpha3, stopped LMS, copied UTGG's zip file (I'm a windows user) over the top of the existing plugin, overwriting existing files. Restarted LMS, but don't see the new settings option. I was a bit confused

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer Plugins - an alternative quick fix guide

2015-04-05 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: For people who are getting buffering or other instability problems, there have been a number of comments on the BBC blog at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/296ac283-54df-4c21-a38f-8cc1fa8731c8?filter=none#, mainly by 'off-tune', comment #239. In short, it will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-04-04 Thread utgg
jimwillsher wrote: Thank you, I hadn't see that thread. I've followed it all but still can't get any joy :-( I've removed the original BBC iPlayer plugin, restarted, then added the first custom repository and the plugin, restarted, then the second, restarted. When I choose a live stream

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-04 Thread utgg
castalla wrote: Reading through your comments .. I'm a bit confused. Is it the case that programme info is only available for radio 1 and 2 ? I don't see any info for other stations. I'm bit confused by your comment too! Are you looking on a Boom/SB3/Classic/Transporter with VFD display? I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer plugin - a guick fix guide

2015-04-04 Thread utgg
jimwillsher wrote: Nothing seems to work. However I don't get any option for Radio Scotland MW, so perhaps I'm doing it wrong? Jim17835 Radio scotland mw isn't listed in the standard alpha3 plugin. Castalla has that because he's got my patch for live text here: '#3737'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-04 Thread utgg
TurnipMan wrote: I would say yes, if it's simple. How hard would it be to enable a what's next option too? So if you have the Radio 4 Six o'clock news on you could see what the half hour comedy coming up is. Thanks Tom It's very simple to have a combined Programme Title - Programme Info

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-03 Thread utgg
Wigster wrote: Hi, So I've been testing the new iPlayer 1.3.1a3 plugin with the updated faad.exe on WHS v1 and a Squeezebox 3 (LMS 7.8.1). 1) Updating the faad has allowed me to access the Live streams (non-UK). There seems to be some rebufferring issues every minute or so (both Radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-03 Thread utgg
TurnipMan wrote: That is my checkage, I've never used RadioVis so I can't say. I appear to be getting timeouts on the plugins page and can't install it. -Bad repository http://www.mysqueezebox.com/public/plugins/logitech.xml - Connect timed out: Bad repository

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-03 Thread utgg
TurnipMan wrote: Yes it works - I think - on 1 and 1X there's a ticker along the top of the station ident. Never seen that before, probably because I'm too old to listen to Radio 1. Tom Ok, I've got it now I think - still learning a lot about perl! Can you try this one please: 17831

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-03 Thread utgg
PasTim wrote: utgg - Does the latest patch need to tested more widely or does it only affect specific devices? This is just a bug fix to get the live text to display on the older players with a VFD display like SB3, Boom Transporter. As it is mostly just a copy of Triode's code, I think

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-04-03 Thread utgg
bonze wrote: This is excellent, and works well on my Windows system I'd been looking at the info they provide for the Radioplayer on the desktop, but hadn't got very far. And went down a few dead ends on the way. The url that you poll seems more useful than the one I was looking at,

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