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

2015-03-13 Thread castalla
HeadBanger wrote: > Owner on all files listed as > Unix User/www > > So this is OK - it's not this causing the issue? No idea! On my setup the owner is squeezeboxserver ... but if it worked before the BBC messed things up, then I'd assume that ownership is okay. Where did you get ffmpeg ?

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

2015-03-13 Thread HeadBanger
Owner on all files listed as Unix User/www So this is OK - it's not this causing the issue? 2 x Duet, 2 x Radio, Touch & Receiver with iPeng 7 & SqueezePlayer served by HP N36 running FreeNAS/SlimNAS/LMS 7.9 HeadBanger's

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

2015-03-13 Thread HeadBanger
castalla wrote: > Live or Listen Again stream? > > Have you changed the menu.opml file? Both live and stream again report the same and I have updated the menu.opml. Help?! 2 x Duet, 2 x Radio, Touch & Receiver with iPeng 7 & SqueezePlayer served by HP N36 running FreeNAS/SlimNAS/LMS 7.9 ---

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

2015-03-13 Thread castalla
HeadBanger wrote: > Ah, OK thanks. How do I check that please? How are you accessing the server? If you have Windows, use WinSCP and get to the plugin folder. WinSCP lets you investigate Properties - ownership, etc. and change them. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 sp

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

2015-03-13 Thread HeadBanger
Ah, OK thanks. How do I check that please? 2 x Duet, 2 x Radio, Touch & Receiver with iPeng 7 & SqueezePlayer served by HP N36 running FreeNAS/SlimNAS/LMS 7.9 HeadBanger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?

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

2015-03-13 Thread castalla
HeadBanger wrote: > Not quite sure what you mean but all files have read and write > permissions on the server if that's what you mean? > > I'm guessing that the FFMPEG file is not working correctly too. Does > anyone know where a working one for BSD/FreeNAS can be downloaded? > > Thanks No Pa

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

2015-03-13 Thread HeadBanger
Not quite sure what you mean but all files have read and write permissions on the server if that's what you mean? I'm guessing that the FFMPEG file is not working correctly too. Does anyone know where a working one for BSD/FreeNAS can be downloaded? Thanks 2 x Duet, 2 x Radio, Touch & Receive

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

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
HeadBanger wrote: > Can anyone help me get this working please? I have found a version of > FFMPEG that the HLS plugin recognises and I can change the audio > settings. So far so good. > > However, any HLS stream that I try to play my SBs report 'Problem: > cannot open file for: [stream name]' >

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

2015-03-13 Thread castalla
HeadBanger wrote: > Both live and stream again report the same and I have updated the > menu.opml. > > Help?! Looks like it may be a dodgy ffmpeg not sure, really. Are you sure File Types are correct? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logite

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

2015-03-13 Thread castalla
HeadBanger wrote: > Can anyone help me get this working please? I have found a version of > FFMPEG that the HLS plugin recognises and I can change the audio > settings. So far so good. > > However, any HLS stream that I try to play my SBs report 'Problem: > cannot open file for: [stream name]' >

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

2015-03-13 Thread HeadBanger
Can anyone help me get this working please? I have found a version of FFMPEG that the HLS plugin recognises and I can change the audio settings. So far so good. However, any HLS stream that I try to play my SBs report 'Problem: cannot open file for: [stream name]' Any help very much appreciated

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

2015-03-13 Thread JohnB
The non-uk streams are 96kbps (sbr_low) and 48kbps (sbr_vlow). Bonze's non-uk menu is 96kbps, I believe. The list of live URLs and various options are given here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103208-Available-HLS-Streams&p=809191&highlight=#post809191 Touch, Meridian G92, Merid

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

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
CommanderROR wrote: > @PasTim > > I tried your BBC 4 link, and it works. However, that't the low wuality > stream I guess, and I don't think i can get the high quality streams > that way, right? HQ/HD Streams are probably meant to be UK only. Sadly I > don't get any bitrate display from the HLS

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

2015-03-13 Thread CommanderROR
@PasTim I tried your BBC 4 link, and it works. However, that't the low wuality stream I guess, and I don't think i can get the high quality streams that way, right? HQ/HD Streams are probably meant to be UK only. Sadly I don't get any bitrate display from the HLS streams...

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

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
kingswindsor wrote: > The buffering entries in the log seem to coincide with the drop outs I > hear. How would I increase the Radio Station buffer timeout please? > That might be the easiest first step. > > I am running LMS on a Vortexbox 2.3 and the players are a mixture of > RPi/PiCorePlay

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

2015-03-13 Thread kingswindsor
bpa wrote: > I can't see anything wrong with the buffering log. What do you think is > wrong ? > > Have you tried to increase the Radio Station buffer timeout ? > I can't remember what LMS platform or setup you are using ? Since you > are syncing - what sort of players have you got ? The buffer

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

2015-03-12 Thread bpa
kingswindsor wrote: > Unfortunately I am still having problems with drop-outs in the audio and > the stream stopping. Sometimes I can go without problems for hours and > sometimes, like now, every few minutes. Sometimes the drop-out becomes > permanent and the stream stops It seems to be

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

2015-03-12 Thread HeadBanger
Can anyone help with where to get a working FFMPEG for FreeNAS / BSD please? Thank you. 2 x Duet, 2 x Radio, Touch & Receiver with iPeng 7 & SqueezePlayer served by HP N36 running FreeNAS/SlimNAS/LMS 7.9 HeadBanger's Profi

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

2015-03-12 Thread kingswindsor
Unfortunately I am still having problems with drop-outs in the audio and the stream stopping. Sometimes I can go without problems for hours and sometimes, like now, every few minutes. Sometimes the drop-out becomes permanent and the stream stops It seems to be due to buffering - see log be

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
CommanderROR wrote: > Actually, I'm not using iPlayer at all. I added the stream URL right > into a LMS favourite. Maybebthat isn't supposed to work, but it's fine > for the HD AAC stream (non HLS) That's fine for Radio 3, if that's all you want. For the others, try a non-uk Radio 4 one, such as

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

2015-03-12 Thread CommanderROR
Actually, I'm not using iPlayer at all. I added the stream URL right into a LMS favourite. Maybebthat isn't supposed to work, but it's fine for the HD AAC stream (non HLS) CommanderROR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
CommanderROR wrote: > Thanks! > > That should do the trick nicely... ;) > > It now shows FFMPEG in the file type register, but the stream still > doesn't play. Oh well, at least the HD AAc stream works fine at the > moment, even though I'm accessing it from Germany.. :D > > The BBC pribably m

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

2015-03-12 Thread yeomanspc
Can't remember what I changed, but have an odroid based lms in the us and hls is fine for live. It was something around avconv. Anyway, it leaves the shores fine. Did you replace the menu.opml with the non-uk one? yeo

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

2015-03-12 Thread CommanderROR
Thanks! That should do the trick nicely... ;) CommanderROR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59408 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103158 _

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
CommanderROR wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to read through the entire thread, but might have missed it > somewhere along the way... > > I'm running LMS on an Odroid U3 with Debian 14.04, so I can't easily > install FFMPEG. Of course, there is that libav, but the HLS Plugin does > not use those. Is t

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

2015-03-12 Thread CommanderROR
Hi, I tried to read through the entire thread, but might have missed it somewhere along the way... I'm running LMS on an Odroid U3 with Debian 14.04, so I can't easily install FFMPEG. Of course, there is that libav, but the HLS Plugin does not use those. Is there a way to tell the HLS Plugin to

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

2015-03-09 Thread alexandali
I'm looking after 8 squeezebox systems installed with various friends and relatives, and the playhls plugin / update the menu.opml file using winscp fix is currently working fine for listen again and live streams on iPlayer. Who knows how long this will continue to work! It's a bit too complex for

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

2015-03-09 Thread Jeff07971
PasTim wrote: > If all PlayHLS file type options are greyed out, your system cannot find > the programs used for the conversions. Take a look at the files in > folder /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/PlayHLS > . > > Are they all accessible to your squeezebox user? > > I

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

2015-03-07 Thread Man in a van
Verulamius wrote: > Thanks to everyone, I have managed to get HLS etc. working on my > Raspberry Pi 2. I followed the instructions on the Linux sub forum to > compile a version of ffmpeg to work with correct terminations. > > The main concern that I have is that it takes over 8 seconds from > s

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

2015-03-07 Thread Verulamius
Thanks to everyone, I have managed to get HLS etc. working on my Raspberry Pi 2. I followed the instructions on the Linux sub forum to compile a version of ffmpeg to work with correct terminations. The main concern that I have is that it takes over 8 seconds from selecting a HLS stream via bbc i

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

2015-03-02 Thread TheLastMan
Raspberry Pi (version one, model B) with Max2play / squeezeplug (LMS 7.8) installed. Connected by Cat5 to my ADSL router. 80GB of FLAC music files held on a Synology NAS and read by Pi using NFS. Squeezeplug came with ffmpeg and Lame preinstalled so all I needed to do to connect to the new strea

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

2015-03-02 Thread Verulamius
Thanks. The reason I asked the question was that I was uncertain whether the Raspberry Pi 2 need a different version compared with other types of Raspberry PI. Verulamius's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

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

2015-03-01 Thread Man in a van
castalla wrote: > Yes. Look for the version posted by expectingtofly (somewhere in this > thread) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-%28UK-only%29/page255 :p Man in a van's P

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

2015-03-01 Thread castalla
Verulamius wrote: > I have got a Raspberry Pi 2, which I have got running with the max2play > and squeezeplug combo. > > Do I need to get a different version of ffmpeg than the one which is > automatically installed? > > If so, where is the relevant repository for the "correct" version? > > Th

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

2015-03-01 Thread Verulamius
I have got a Raspberry Pi 2, which I have got running with the max2play and squeezeplug combo. Do I need to get a different version of ffmpeg than the one which is automatically installed? If so, where is the relevant repository for the "correct" version? Thanks for your help

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

2015-03-01 Thread TheLastMan
ralphy wrote: > Should be > > patch -b < sigpipe.patch > > That one worked - [directory]: came back - thanks. Matt http://www.last.fm/user/MJL-UK SQUEEZEBOXES:[/B] TWO SB DUETS (LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN) AND A *'PICOREPLAYER' (HTTPS://SITES.GOOGLE.COM/SITE/PICOREPLAYER/HOME) [b]Server:* Ras

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

2015-03-01 Thread utgg
JohnB wrote: > bps, > > Thankyou for the word in my ear. I was already wondering whether my post > was a good idea, for the reason you mentioned. [Post now cut back.] > > It is also my impression that Triode has a good relationship with the > people at the BBC. A few years ago I was in contact

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

2015-03-01 Thread JohnB
bps, Thankyou for the word in my ear. I was already wondering whether my post was a good idea, for the reason you mentioned. It is also my impression that Triode has a good relationship with the people at the BBC. A few years ago I was in contact with the guys dealing with on-demand because of a

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

2015-03-01 Thread bpa
JohnB wrote: > utgg, > > Just thought I would mention that get_iplayer 2.9.1 seems to be able to > deal with on-demand HLS streams by using ffmpeg. > One of the main reasons the BBC made all these formats change was because of users downloading programs rather than streaming. I believe Triod

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

2015-03-01 Thread JohnB
utgg wrote: > I've been playing about a bit with my own decoder (at the moment a bit > of stand-alone 'C' code to replace ffmpeg as a 'transcoding helper' to > extract and demux the aac stream which works for both the Listen Live > and the Listen Again streams). The listen again streams have a bi

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

2015-03-01 Thread ralphy
TheLastMan wrote: > When I entered the command above "patch -b sigpipe.batch" the cursor > moved to the next line and sat there so I waited for the [directory]: > text to reappear for five minutes but it didn't. I left it 10 minutes > to make a cup of coffee and when I came back nothing had chan

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

2015-02-28 Thread markiii
markiii wrote: > This may yet be my own fault, as I just realised vortexbox is in the > middle of an ALAC mirror on 13000 tracks at the moment. Whats the > betting MP3 streams are ok as there is no server transcoding, but HLS is > falling on its arse due to CPU load. I'll report back when it even

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

2015-02-28 Thread bpa
TheLastMan wrote: > The problem was apparently fixed as the rebuffering problems largely > stopped Unless you have a small processor - patch should have only taken seconds. I wonder if you system is overloaded. The patch should not affect buffering per se unless rebuffering was caused by havin

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

2015-02-28 Thread TheLastMan
richardsk wrote: > Use the patch utility -- go to /usr/share/perl5/Slim then run > patch -b sigpipe.patch > ( the -b will create a backup) Thanks for that. I started getting terrible buffering problems, stopping and starting continually every few seconds so I ran the patch as described via SSH u

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

2015-02-28 Thread PasTim
Jeff07971 wrote: > Hi All > > I have been trying to get the Play HLS plugin working on my Centos 6.6 > system. > > I have compiled ffmpeg from git and installed BBCiPlayer(Triode) > together with the menu.opml (Bonze) and PlayHLS(Bpa). > > After this te streams do not play in LMS but ffmpeg on

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

2015-02-28 Thread Jeff07971
Hi All I have been trying to get the Play HLS plugin working on my Centos 6.6 system. I have compiled ffmpeg from git and installed BBCiPlayer(Triode) together with the menu.opml (Bonze) and PlayHLS(Bpa). After this te streams do not play in LMS but ffmpeg on the linux command line works fine.

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

2015-02-28 Thread kingswindsor
Thanks bpa, I missed that thread but will experiment and report back if/when I establish anything. kingswindsor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61926 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.

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

2015-02-28 Thread bpa
kingswindsor wrote: > It has been failing after 30 secs or 5 mins or some other random > interval so the 10 hours was a surprise. I have been using the latest > menu.opml so I suppose that is the iplayer url > > URL="iplayer://live?aac=http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulc

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

2015-02-28 Thread kingswindsor
It has been failing after 30 secs or 5 mins or some other random interval so the 10 hours was a surprise. I have been using the latest menu.opml so I suppose that is the iplayer url URL="iplayer://live?aac=http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radi

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

2015-02-27 Thread bpa
kingswindsor wrote: > For no obvious reason everything was working beautifully for me today > (sorry markiii) and the Radio 3 HLS stream ran without a hitch - but > after 10 hours it stopped and is now unreliable again. I had two > players running at the same time (not synchronised) and one fail

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

2015-02-27 Thread kingswindsor
markiii wrote: > This may yet be my own fault, as I just realised vortexbox is in the > middle of an ALAC mirror on 13000 tracks at the moment. Whats the > betting MP3 streams are ok as there is no server transcoding, but HLS is > falling on its arse due to CPU load. I'll report back when it even

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

2015-02-27 Thread castalla
ftlight wrote: > I posted this request for information on the (yet another) new post on > the BBC blog: > > Andrew Scott said: > > "Some manufacturers understood, responded to the information we > provided, asked us questions, implemented the changes and those devices > are now working fine." >

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

2015-02-27 Thread ftlight
I posted this request for information on the (yet another) new post on the BBC blog: Andrew Scott said: "Some manufacturers understood, responded to the information we provided, asked us questions, implemented the changes and those devices are now working fine." Please provide a list of these m

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

2015-02-27 Thread JohnB
There is a new post from the BBC on their Internet Blog. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/234a65f0-89c1-489c-b6e9-55d2de932e53 It, once again, bangs on about WMA and providing a fallback 128 kbps mp3 live stream but it never mentions the "old" AAC streams. One para seems signicant th

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

2015-02-27 Thread bonze
There's probably some smug BBC exec sat at home somewhere with his Apple-iProduct wondering what all the fuss is about. LMS Version: 7.9 TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - WHS 2011 2x Touch, 3x SB3 bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimd

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

2015-02-27 Thread castalla
PasTim wrote: > I know nothing about that setup, other than it's a flavour of linux. I > suppose "apt-get install lame" is too obvious? Suspiciously so! It can't be that simple? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry P

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

2015-02-27 Thread castalla
After a week of chaos, my isp finally restored the internet last night . sigh. However, I found that my squeezeplug pi device seems to have gone awry ... So, I've reinstalled the 7.5 version - set up as before BUT there's no lame settings for mp3 in the File Type dialog. All mp3 types are di

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

2015-02-27 Thread JohnB
Andrew Scott on the BBC Internet Blog: > @5 majones - no, the RTMP streams will be shut down as well. *We've > never published the RTMP streams, they have only ever been expected to > be used by our own applications* so we have not published a timeline for > that. If you are using a device which

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

2015-02-27 Thread markiii
most IT programs fail because of not having systems analysts who properly scope the problem statement would not surprise me if someone forgot to put the listen again streams in scope in the slightest Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay

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

2015-02-27 Thread majones
JohnB wrote: > There is a new post from the BBC on their Internet Blog. > It, once again, bangs on about WMA and providing a fallback 128 kbps mp3 > live stream but it never mentions the "old" AAC streams. It is totally mystifying that the BBC Audio Factory people never talk about the Listen Agai

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

2015-02-27 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: > Yes it can! > > Sorted. Not everything in life is complicated, just most of it :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Minimserver (server) & upplay (co

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

2015-02-27 Thread castalla
castalla wrote: > Suspiciously so! It can't be that simple? Yes it can! Sorted. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker (mothballed) Cubieboard + Debia

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

2015-02-27 Thread PasTim
TheLastMan wrote: > Squeezeplug is based on debian, so standard debian commands should > work. > > I am surprised that PasTim is having this problem as I have recently > reinstalled both v7.50 and latterly the Max2Play versions (Max2Play is > just a browser interface to v7.50) and each time both

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

2015-02-27 Thread castalla
TheLastMan wrote: > Squeezeplug is based on debian, so standard debian commands should > work. > > I am surprised that PasTim is having this problem as I have recently > reinstalled both v7.50 and latterly the Max2Play versions (Max2Play is > just a browser interface to v7.50) and each time both

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

2015-02-27 Thread TheLastMan
PasTim wrote: > I know nothing about that setup, other than it's a flavour of linux. I > suppose "apt-get install lame" is too obvious? Squeezeplug is based on debian, so standard debian commands should work. I am surprised that PasTim is having this problem as I have recently reinstalled both v

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

2015-02-27 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: > After a week of chaos, my isp finally restored the internet last night > . sigh. > > However, I found that my squeezeplug pi device seems to have gone awry > ... > > So, I've reinstalled the 7.5 version - set up as before BUT there's no > lame settings for mp3 in the File

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

2015-02-27 Thread bpa
richardsk wrote: > T It's in Formats/RemoteStream.pm, and I'm not sure when that gets > called. It's not involved in this BBC radio problem so may not be > relevant. All transcoding protocols such as BBCiPlayer RTMP.pm are subclassed off Formats::RemoteStream. So you will not see it "called" as

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

2015-02-27 Thread mrw
richardsk wrote: > > The global trap seems like the best approach, but there is another > location where sigpipe is trapped that I still need to look at. It's in > Formats/RemoteStream.pm, and I'm not sure when that gets called. It's > not involved in this BBC radio problem so may not be relevan

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

2015-02-27 Thread markiii
is this related ot the HLS plugin? Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay 7.8 on 2 x Windows 7 PCs LMS 7.7.3 on DIY UnRaid NAS now upgraded to 7.8 (06/01/2015) Squeeze user since the SB1 --

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

2015-02-27 Thread Verulamius
I have got the max2play up and running on my raspberry pi 2. However I have a couple of problems. 1. My USB hard drives are not recognised by the RPI and so I can not access my music library. 2. When I connect up the RPI to my home network, via LAN to my router, all of my devices on my network s

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

2015-02-27 Thread markiii
Giza2020 wrote: > Markii I had this problem and I'm not sure how I fixed it but I did > > Could have been the upgrade of FFMEG using a post by Milhouse in these > forums (look at my posts and you'll find it) > > I also reset my router - that could have helped > > I also restarted LMS > >

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

2015-02-27 Thread richardsk
mrw wrote: > Why didn't I think of looking there ? :) > > It seems to working fine on Debian Wheezy (stable) on a SheevaPlug > (arm). It effectively does what some of the later wrapper scripts posted > in this thread do. > > Longer term: > > Is this an LMS bug ? > > Should the pipe trap be se

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

2015-02-27 Thread Giza2020
Markii I had this problem and I'm not sure how I fixed it but I did Could have been the upgrade of FFMEG using a post by Milhouse in these forums (look at my posts and you'll find it) I also reset my router - that could have helped I also restarted LMS And I also prayed to the tech lo

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

2015-02-27 Thread markiii
yep the mp3 streams are actually more stable than the HLS this morning Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay 7.8 on 2 x Windows 7 PCs LMS 7.7.3 on DIY UnRaid NAS now upgraded to 7.8 (06/01/2015) Squeeze user since the SB1 --

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

2015-02-27 Thread markiii
seems even worse this morning, lucky to get 10 seconds play betweem rebuffers Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay 7.8 on 2 x Windows 7 PCs LMS 7.7.3 on DIY UnRaid NAS now upgraded to 7.8 (06/01/2015) Squeeze user since the SB1 ---

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

2015-02-26 Thread bpa
mrw wrote: > I notice that the command pipeline seems to be invoked differently on > Windows systems, I don't know whether they are susceptible to this > problem. Windows will be a special case as I think there are two ways transcoding happens. In the case where socketwrapper is used, sigpipe s

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

2015-02-26 Thread richardsk
TheLastMan wrote: > Hi Richard, how do you apply this patch? Use the patch utility -- go to /usr/share/perl5/Slim then run patch -b sigpipe.patch ( the -b will create a backup) richardsk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

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

2015-02-26 Thread mrw
richardsk wrote: > I've been looking into why avconv/ffmpeg doesn't stop after playing the > HLS stream, and have discovered that it's a problem with the servers' > handling of SIGPIPE. > The server sets the IGNORE flag on the pipe trap, and the POSIX spec > requires the flag to be inherited by a

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

2015-02-26 Thread markiii
anyone else finding the HLS streams constantly rebuffering at the moment? Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay 7.8 on 2 x Windows 7 PCs LMS 7.7.3 on DIY UnRaid NAS now upgraded to 7.8 (06/01/2015) Squeeze user since the SB1 ---

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

2015-02-26 Thread markiii
Hmm, looks like I forgot to up the buffer size, now set to 30 secs, let's see if that helps Transporter (Lounge) Touch (Office) Touch (Kitchen) Radio (Bedroom) Radio (Garage) SqueezePlay 7.8 on 2 x Windows 7 PCs LMS 7.7.3 on DIY UnRaid NAS now upgraded to 7.8 (06/01/2015) Squeeze user since t

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

2015-02-26 Thread kingswindsor
markiii wrote: > Seems to be much the same on radio 1, 2, 3, 5 though oddly ok on 4 > > Roughly 25 seconds of playback before stops and rebuffers, starts > playing then repeats Hmmm, not quite the same as my problem perhaps. Following bpa's advice I turned up the logging on player.source to DE

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

2015-02-26 Thread markiii
kingswindsor wrote: > Can you describe the rebuffering symptoms some more? I'm finding the > streams stutter and fail incessantly at the moment - see my other recent > posts. Seems to be much the same on radio 1, 2, 3, 5 though oddly ok on 4 Roughly 25 seconds of playback before stops and rebu

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

2015-02-26 Thread TheLastMan
Hi Richard, how do you apply this patch? richardsk wrote: > I've been looking into why avconv/ffmpeg doesn't stop after playing the > HLS stream, and have discovered that it's a problem with the servers' > handling of SIGPIPE. > The server sets the IGNORE flag on the pipe trap, and the POSIX spe

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

2015-02-26 Thread kingswindsor
markiii wrote: > anyone else finding the HLS streams constantly rebuffering at the > moment? Can you describe the rebuffering symptoms some more? I'm finding the streams stutter and fail incessantly at the moment - see my other recent posts. ---

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

2015-02-26 Thread ilainftw
utgg wrote: > The m3u8 'master playlist' url that you'll find in that bit of json/xml > won't play in ffmpeg though. There is some 'bbc special' mucking about > with cookies required - that's why I've written my own program to > replace ffmpeg to handle this. The master playlist usually gives a >

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

2015-02-26 Thread Man in a van
castalla wrote: > This is likely because ffmpeg is not exiting correctly. The squeezeplug > ffmpeg has been reported as showing this behaviour. > > Run top in terminal and you'll likely see multiple ffmpeg processes as > you change streams. I can confirm this, see my post here, http://foru

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

2015-02-26 Thread castalla
TheLastMan wrote: > I have noticed more "lag" between selecting a station and the stream > running This is likely because ffmpeg is not exiting correctly. The squeezeplug ffmpeg has been reported as showing this behaviour. Run top in terminal and you'll likely see multiple ffmpeg processes a

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

2015-02-26 Thread ian_heys
markiii wrote: > anyone else finding the HLS streams constantly rebuffering at the > moment? Live Radio 4 seems stable, as all the other live streams I've listened to for the last ten days or so have been. In fact I can see the buffer on my Revo SuperConnect radio and everytime I've looked the b

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

2015-02-26 Thread markiii
LMS is running on an I5 with 3 Gig Ram using Vortexbox at the moment as I'm in the process of swapping some architecture around it ran fine last week on that hardware, you coudl be right as more people have fixed something to get to the HLS streams maybe its overloading Transporter (Lounge) To

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

2015-02-26 Thread TheLastMan
markiii wrote: > anyone else finding the HLS streams constantly rebuffering at the > moment? Not constantly but occassionally. I put this down to the fact that I am now using a Raspberry Pi with Squeezeplug which is probably slightly under-powered for transcoding. I have noticed more "lag" betw

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
utgg wrote: > ... I haven't yet looked for an alternative, but > http://polling.bbc.co.uk/appconfig/iplayerradio/android/1.6.5/endpoints.json > might be a nice starting point to find all the urls, although the > version numbering implies it isn't very permanent! ... Ok, I've only just noticed th

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
JohnB wrote: > > The on-demand Radio 3 streams seem to be still using the old rtmp > format. If that's the case, it sounds like we'll be ok with the rtmp on-demand streams for a good while yet. And also have no example of on-demand hds to investigate... ---

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

2015-02-26 Thread JohnB
Same on Windows but for live streaming it does appear that it is using HDS. The "sniffer" part of a program I have gives "http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hds/uk/hd/llnw/bbc_radio_three.f4m"; as the URL for Radio 3 Live. The on-demand Radio 3 streams seem to be stil

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

2015-02-26 Thread bpa
JohnB wrote: > Probably not relevant to your question but, from what I can see, HDS is > used by the BBC's own player on its website. On non UK, playing radio programs through BBBC website/ Radio ... it is still Flash on Windows and Linux. --

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
JohnB wrote: > Probably not relevant to your question but, from what I can see, HDS is > used by the BBC's own player on its website. That's good to know. I may see what is involved to use that now... utgg's Profile: http

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
utgg wrote: > The following format of mediaselector/5 is a starting point: > "http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/vpid/b052grbv/format/json/mediaset/android-phone-rtmp-high/proto/http";. > > Mediaset can also be 'apple-ipad-hls', and I guess there are others > about - I

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

2015-02-26 Thread JohnB
Probably not relevant to your question but, from what I can see, HDS is used by the BBC's own player on its website. Touch, Meridian G92, Meridian G55, PMC OB1i speakers, HP Proliant Microserver/Ubuntu, PC/Windows 7, iPad 4, iPeng, Squeezepad. ---

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
utgg wrote: > The following format of mediaselector/5 is a starting point: > "http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/vpid/b052grbv/format/json/mediaset/android-phone-rtmp-high/proto/http";. > > Mediaset can also be 'apple-ipad-hls', and I guess there are others > about - I

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

2015-02-26 Thread bpa
utgg wrote: > Mediaset can also be 'apple-ipad-hls', and I guess there are others > about - I've only found ones that yield lower bit rates for mobile use. > Interesting that is an "apple" selections. Last time I looked iPlayer on PC browser (couldn't check Safari) only offers Flash at the m

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

2015-02-26 Thread utgg
bpa wrote: > The XML points to a MTIS file which has info something like this showing > a WMA and a AAC URL > > Code: > > > http://bbc.co.uk/2008/mp/mediaselection";> > > > > > > > > > http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4/asx/b052j5l9/s

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