Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-27 Thread PasTim
Have you had a look at the user guide? There's some setting up to do, and many options. Does your renderer support flac or pcm? If so, you should set up the codecs option in the configuration file to include whatever is supported. The default is only mp3, which we are now told doesn't work

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
mps wrote: Grrr...I was hoping it would work, but the works are still truncated by Dynamic Playlists. Notice how Pictures at an Exhibition get cut off after track 10 even though there are many more tracks in the work. 17237 I think this must be due to truncation by Dynamic Playlists rather

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
Isnogoud wrote: Yes, I have read the user guide. The Roku Soundbridge is able to play MP3 and WMA, according to its specification. I don't understand why LMS is not transcoding Spotify Ogg Vorbis to MP3 as LAME is available. Try adding the pcm codec. The Soundbridge is said to support wav

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
mps wrote: Hi Pastim, Here is my SQL for playing works (The playcount test is because I only want to choose from works that I have already played at least once). Note that the second image I posted above shows that the SQL Playlist is not truncated when I run it in test mode, only when I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
mps wrote: Agree 100%. However, I'd like to add the most important thing, which is that I can't imagine anything but Squeezebox that offers the kind of (under the hood) help I just received from you. Thank you again! Thanks very much. I'd have to add that I'm just going with the flow of this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
Please forgive the following dim trackstat questions, but I'm well and truly baffled by trackstat ratings. My only use of trackstat has been for 'when played' info. I have gone through some wikis (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Setup_support_for_ratings and so on) but I must be coming at

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: okay, I can switch than back down to 30 seconds if you want. I did that because, this re-scan process takes some time and was creating a risk of interrupting current playback in 0.1.4.0 (this has been fixed in 0.2.0.0). The issue that still remains, is that when the rescan

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: I think UDP 1900 need to be opened (generic uPnP requirement). After that, sq2u opens a socket with each players and with LMS, so the OS must allow him to do that. What happens, from time to time for WIndows users, is that the 1st time sq2u is launched, there is prompt to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: ...if your uPnP device configuration does not change, use the upnp_scan_interval to 0. That will totally prevent the rescan of upnp devices. Some devices tend to not respond in time (quick enough) to the regular upnp rescan process and then are removed from the list. But

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: Thanks for the clear log feedback. To solve problem #1 and if your uPnP device configuration does not change, use the upnp_scan_interval to 0. That will totally prevent the rescan of upnp devices. Some devices tend to not respond in time (quick enough) to the regular upnp

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: You do not need to open these ports as they are socket pair to talk to players. Typically, a upnp player will indicate its inbound/listening port (1400 for SOnos, 8080 for my Marantz ... they all vary) and sq2 will use that as a dst port when opening a socket pair, the src

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-30 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: Thanks - confirmation would be good as I'm not a IP guru neither - currently, sq2u worked on the following devices for me, w/o special needs - PC: Win7 SP1 x64 - PC: Kubuntu 14.10 x32 and x64 - ARM: Raspberry Pi B+ (Raspian with kernel 3.12.x) - ARM: Odroid C1 (14.04

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-27 Thread PasTim
Isnogoud wrote: Hello, I'm running LMS on a Synology DS212J NAS with Triode's plugin for Spotify. I woud like to stream Spotify to my legacy internet radio players (Roku Soundbrige, Pure Sensia and Revo Brik) but LMS does not broadcast Spotify sound on its stream.mp3 output and even not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-28 Thread PasTim
mps wrote: Fixed it! Thank you so much! Good. I use this, and one additionally based on a Rating tag (eg tracks on a rating of 80 or more), more than most other menus. For me this type of facility is why I stick with LMS and put effort into it. Nothing else comes close :-) LMS 7.9 on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-06 Thread PasTim
mikerob wrote: I've got SB and Sonos players with LMS running on Windows 7 so I've run the app, it has recognised the Sonos players, I've edited the config file, installed LAME, LMS recognises the Sonos players but when I play a (mp3) track, there is no sound. Is there any log/debug info

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-12 Thread PasTim
auster wrote: Where can I find custom scan database tables (customscan_track_attributes etc)? Are they located some other database file than library.db? I have licensed customscan etc. Database query give me stats which are showing that my custom tags are scanned. But where are those custom

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-09 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Just reporting that the armv6-static works okay on Raspi - thanks to all! Just a point: is there a switch to stop console output ? On ubuntu I run with something like: Code: -z -x config.xml -f squeeze2upnp.log -d all=info

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-01-07 Thread PasTim
rc21 OK for me. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC and Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Squeezelite to PC sound. Minimserver (server) and upplay (control point) to same amps to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-01-13 Thread PasTim
MillmoorRon wrote: I have 2 methods of viewing ratings: 1. Squeeze Commander on Android 2. A Now Playing page on my TV using SqueezeJS Please forgive the digression, but can you point me at something that would explain how to use SqueezeJS on a TV? (I have found the SqueezeJS wiki) It's

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Server Power Control Shutdown after Scan results in LMS Crash

2015-01-14 Thread PasTim
On ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, using Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1420550541 @ Wed Jan 7 04:04:59 UTC 2015 with Server Power Control plugin v20141101.163656. When I need to rescan my library I normally do this overnight (because Custom Scans take several hours). I use the very useful

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-02-09 Thread PasTim
magee35 wrote: All of my music files were ripped with dbpoweramp. I do not know how the output got changed from Flac to MP3. It must have only been for a short while as there are very few MP3s in my library. .. Does that show what you are asking? Thanks. :confused: I'm not going to

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I am also still a user of get-iplayer. That's still working on my linux box, even though I thought support had been withdrawn some time ago. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Thank-you! Normality is resumed with Radio3 - report 322 kb/s in ffprobe and play fine with bpa's plugin. Edit: Also bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8 works and reports 322 kb/s. So now we are better off than before! Confirmed - excellent. Thanks very much. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi,

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: There is no problem at the moment. But the BBC are saying Listen Again is also changing over to HLS/HDS/DASH from whatever protocol it uses at the moment. That's what I was referring to. I have to (sheepishly) admit I hadn't even tested it today or yesterday, but the BBC blog

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
jamesmccosh wrote: Very many thanks for your help, but I'm not there yet. The title appears: *PlayHLS Plugin repo*, but there is no entry in the list below the headings, so no box to tick. You may need to Restart LMS at this point - I can't recall. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Irrelevant for this plugin since ffmpeg handles the stream directly - proxied is only relevant when theplayer can play the stream directly from the station. Yes, sorry. I suspect I was in the process of adding 'audio' to the custom files and didn't test each change separately.

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: Logitech ceases to offer its Squeezebox product but continues to support its infrastructure. Whereas the BBC continues to offer its radio product but ceases to support its infrastructure. We'll need the Deep Thought computer to sort this one out!How many channels? If only it

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I just had a reply to my complaint to the BBC, as below. It basically says 'Go away - we are ignoring you'. - Thank you for contacting the BBC iPlayer support team. I understand you are no longer able to listen to BBC Radio streams on your internet radio. We have changed the way we stream

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
jamesmccosh wrote: I'm full of admiration and gratitude for bpa. However, I am ignorant of how to take advantage of his insights. Perhaps he, or someone else, could point me at the information for the technique of streaming from VLC to LMS, and/or how to use the repositories in LMS Plugins.

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
I tried to publish one URL on the BBC blog. It was deleted by the moderator. Such clever people at the BBC. So here is one yet again: Code: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/high/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Thanks for all your hard work so far. I have followed the instructions above and successfully installed the plugin and it shows up as active, however, when I try to play the URL you provided I get Now Playing...Connecting and then nothing plays, the SB returns to idle. Am I

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
dave4jazz wrote: Krisbee wrote: From despair to joy in 24hrs thanks to bpa and all those who posted the 320kbs HLS feed details. Using these for BBC 3, 4, 4 extra, 5 live with bpa's plugin: Code:

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
If anyone out there uses some form of network player with internet radio, but has no LMS device to connect to it to play the radio stations, or you use Sonos, there may be a solution using UPnP. I use this on two devices, and several others have been tried and work. With luck you will be able

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Just to confirm what others have said, just try using the LMS browser menu to add a favourite (or favorite if you insist ;) ) with one of the urls posted recently. See the picture. Move the cursor the the 'Favorites' line, and then select the pencil edit button to the right

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Nick_G wrote: OK thanks. I am running LMS 7.9.0 and am on OS X 10.10.1 I think I'm getting there. If I can get LMS to see the file where I have stored the HLS streams I'm hoping I can play them from there. I have lots of playlists stored on a folder on my Desktop including one with the

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

2015-02-14 Thread PasTim
vinnielo wrote: Sorry.. I've not been keeping up with the thread.. there are too many posts to read through which is probably a good thing. I hope someone can post up a summary in a new pinned thread in this 3rd party software forum just to help those of us out who haven't been able to

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

2015-02-14 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: If the URL you are playing has the form: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8 then it is 320kBps. If the URl you are playing has the form:

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

2015-02-14 Thread PasTim
Have we reached a point where a new thread would help? We have: 1) bpa's plugin which creates 3 custom files 2) a menu.opml replacement for bbc iplayer live 3) many people providing ffmpeg solutions for various platforms, and an extra bpa plugin for those with ffmpeg issues where it doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-02-10 Thread PasTim
magee35 wrote: Custom Scan seems to be working correctly now. I specified both tags to look for, changed the maximum rating to 5 (I thought 100 was a max percentage or something...), and checked the Scan All box. Does the Scan All run when you Rescan Media Library/Look for new and changed

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-02-09 Thread PasTim
magee35 wrote: I have very little experience with computer programs. I can run a few... I did notice the difference between mp3 files tags showing RATING WMP and the FLAC files tags showing RATING. I also double checked the settings in Custom Scan/Module Settings for Ratings Tag and see

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New versions of erlands plugins

2015-02-09 Thread PasTim
magee35 wrote: I finally had a chance to make a new SQL playlist and try it out. I selected create new playlist; Advanced with rating and followed the instructions in the Setup Smart Playlists wiki except that I selected Rock genre instead of Pop. So it should play all 5 star rated Rock

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Oh-oh !! This what version info says: This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. This package also serves as a transitional package to libav-tools. Users are advised to use avconv from the libav-tools package instead of ffmpeg. Homepage:

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: You may need to Restart LMS at this point - I can't recall. If the list of installed plugins includes 'PlayHLS' you are good to go. Are you OK now? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: I think I got PCM format wrong - please test the following: In the PlayHLS custom-convert.conf hls pcm entry Code: [ffmpeg] -loglevel quiet -i $FILE$ -f s16le - If you need to resample output to 44100 then

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Is this info for a working or broken system ? No distro or ffmpeg version given. For some reason Debian and Ubuntu have taken a dislike to ffmpeg and instead use the libav fork of ffmpeg and then add the scary warnings. However to get information on which system work and

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Verulamius wrote: Just the mp3 is greyed out, the others are showing ffmpeg. I am trying to use http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8 as a trial URL. I have also tried with the playlist previously circulated without any

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: I'm not aware of anyone posting pls URLs that give us the 320kbps stream urls of the form /sbr_high/ rather than just the /high/ ones which only seem to give us 128kbps streams. Just change the high to sbr_high in the pls URLs. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: I upload to the Synology from my Chrome book using Chrome web browser... Does a Chrome Book have an equivalent of Putty? See http://aboutchromebook.com/putty-for-chromebook/ and Secure Shell. Maybe that is what is needed? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Also the following, for those that care: Code: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_1extra.m3u8

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Nick_G wrote: No, the same thing happens. Thanks, Nick I still think we have some wires crossed somewhere, since you are not playing 'a playlist', and I've never seen a message like that even when mis-configured. Are you quite sure you are playing the item with a URL ending m3u8 in the list

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: I think I'm seeing the same issue - will reboot and check again. On ubuntu 14.04 the following works (the last line is probably unnecessary), and doesn't seem to have the multiple ffmpeg issue, but I do understand that doesn't help for other versions/distros. Code:

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Not sure what pls urls you are referring to. I've just seen these pls mentioning in this thread: Code: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/journalism-http-tablet/vpid/bbc_radio_fourfm/format/pls.pls

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Broken - ffmpeg repeats # dpkg -s ffmpeg Package: ffmpeg Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: oldlibs Installed-Size: 235 Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Architecture: armhf Source:

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: I really do appreciate that lots of people are working really hard to sort out the mess caused by the BBC, however, I am not conversant in linux, and I no longer own a PC so I can't even open a terminal window to my Synology Diskstation where LMS resides. Does anyone know if

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Nick_G wrote: It's OK - I've found it. I am just about to try 6 Music. If it doesn't play then it presumably means that ffmpeg isn't installed. If that's the case then I'll wait for the fully-developed plugin. Edit: it gives me Error: no items found in playlist so I think I will have to

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Hi, I am running LMS on a Synology Diskstation DS213j: Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195 @ Mon Aug 19 11:42:55 PDT 2013 Hostname: DiskStation Server IP Address: 192.168.0.20 Server HTTP Port Number: 9002 Operating system: Synology DiskStation (DSM Package

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Verulamius wrote: Thanks bpa and others for their hard work on this. I'm having difficulty get this to work on my setup. I have my LMS running on a converted Seagate goflex box, which runs debian and squeezeplug. I have installed ffmpeg, and bpa plugins but the relevant streams are not

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Okay - forgot to reboot. Now - starts avconv but fails to exit and creates second process --- Not sure how to proceed with your links. Do I need to uninstall the existing ffmpeg ? How? getting messy! My ignorance getting

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Krisbee wrote: From despair to joy in 24hrs thanks to bpa and all those who posted the 320kbs HLS feed details. Using these for BBC 3, 4, 4 extra, 5 live with bpa's plugin: Code:

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: It's just easier to distribute a list of URLs via a normal .m3u playlist file, as I did in post 2304. Saves other people the effort of having to work out and type in URLs into the 'Tune in URL' and then save as favourites. But it seems that playlist will only work for us in the

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

2015-02-13 Thread PasTim
Nick_G wrote: Hi Tim. Yes I created a favourite and the url that I have entered is: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_6music.m3u8 If I select it on the SBT I get the Error: no items found in playlist message. Thanks, Nick If you

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
As a side note just for information, if you don't want to use a UPnP converter with LMS, you can use minimserver plus minimstreamer to drive an Internet Radio if it has UPnP support. Although the website says HLS support is being added, it already works if you use ffmpeg as the stream.converter.

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Doesn't seem to be a download option? You have to install minimserver, then minimstreamer is a plugin add-on. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC and Marantz

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Got it installed after a lot of faff! Haven't tested it properly yet ... and it doesn't work bugger, bugger, bugger (something to do with the symlink?) update: working BUT still massive buffering Conjugate the verb 'to faff': je faff tu

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Do any other streams play - eg. Tunein ? Are you in UK? And if not, if you change the URL to include 'sbr_low' rather than 'sbr_high', does that fix it? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: I'm still trying to get something to play. This url: http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live...io_fourfm.m3u8 gives me a 403 forbidden error, all other streams error as no items found in playlist (including those from the Radiofeeds UK app) Make sure the PlayHLS plugin is ticked

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: I think my Synology Diskstation must have ffmpeg pre-installed because, after I installed the Apple HLS m3u8 plugin, file types on LMS list the transcoding settings as: Apple HLS m3u8: FLAC=ffmpeg MP3=disabled PCM=ffmpeg However, I cannot get any of the playlists to

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
wilgartw wrote: Hello, is there a simple how to on this fix? i have got the live feeds working through favourites, (6 music and radio 4) but it too a year to teach my girlfriend how to change the channel through the iplayer app, and i fear this will be a step too far. i am only

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Nope, every single BBC stream errors with file not found or no items in playlist or can't open file for- that's on the Synology AND Windows 7! There's some more fundamental issue somewhere here. I think a retreat to basics may be needed. You have ffmpeg installed and the HLS

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Apologies! I'm at my wits end. Radiofeeds app: Currently streaming Classic FM (mp3) [National, Classical, Romantic, Film Score] 128kbps CBR, MP3 Radio - perfectly. If I try BBC Radio 3 from the app I get error: no items in playlist BBC Radio 3 (mp3) [National,

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Any experimentalists ? If you assume the HLS stream is always going to be AAC. Then adding the following to PlayHLS custom-convert.conf file will avoid LMS doing the transcoding if player can play AAC natively. Code: hls aac * * #

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: I can see that LAME is not installed: drwxr-xr-x2 adminusers 4096 Nov 21 02:59 . drwxrwxrwx 20 adminusers 4096 Nov 26 17:48 .. -rwxr-xr-x1 adminusers16276 Nov 21 02:59 alac -rwxr-xr-x1 adminusers50100 Nov 21

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: My suggestion is that you get it working on Windows 7 before your Synology because W7 should definitely work, and the fact that it doesn't suggests that you're doing something wrong (sorry to sound critical - no offence intended!). There's a thread specifically on this by Man

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Apologies! I'm at my wits end. Radiofeeds app: Currently streaming Classic FM (mp3) [National, Classical, Romantic, Film Score] 128kbps CBR, MP3 Radio - perfectly. If I try BBC Radio 3 from the app I get error: no items in playlist BBC Radio 3 (mp3) [National,

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Sorry to be so incompetent, thanks for your patience. I just tried this http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8 with Tunein and got a Connecting... and then the SB Classic's display returned to Now Playing.

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

2015-02-15 Thread PasTim
Klammer wrote: Hi Ronnie, Just tried that and got Now playing and then, immediately, Stopped. I can play mp3 streams from Classic FM etc. with the Radiofeeds and Tunein apps and mp3 is native on my system so I don't think I need a Lame codec. It's a complete mystery to me, I can't

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

2015-02-16 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Since this post is BBCiPlayer specific and updates MP3 as well as HLS shouldn't the sticky be in the BBCiPlayer thread. i was just trying to provide a cross-reference for people landing here first. I also note there is already another very helpful HLS thread, but having two on the

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

2015-02-16 Thread PasTim
To update the list of BBC Radio live channels in the BBC iPlayer as of 11/2/2015 see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)p=807276viewfull=1#post807276. The original menu.opml is, on linux, in

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

2015-02-16 Thread PasTim
For those with the time and inclination, https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide gives access to the latest ffmpeg. On a low-powered machine compiling can take hours, but it's a way of getting a current version. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps.

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

2015-02-20 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: And AAC has to be licenced, so for any manufacturer to add it to an old player there are licence costs to consider. Many licences are per device that plays it, so for a manufacturer to put out a free software upgrade that might be installed on tens of thousands of players

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

2015-03-14 Thread PasTim
properjob wrote: Same setup. Great work folks Next question - will I be able to apply a similar fix to BPA's iPlayer Extra plugin as well? That no longer seems to be functioning. It's mostly still working for me, at least for a few items I just tested again. There are some older

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

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Out of curiousity, what is the catchup window for iPad and Android BBC iPlayer Radio Apps ? If it is only 7 days then expect I'd another round of changes. On my android BBC iPlayer Radio app, R3 and R4 show only 7 days in the past. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04,

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

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: PS I've just checked the BBC Radio iPlayer for Andriod and it's behaviour is the same as on iPad, i.e. 30 days when searching on programme name but only 7 days via the daily schedule. Oh yes, so it does. I hadn't even thought to try a search. What a strange implementation.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: If you sudo netstat, it should give you the process name on all ports - and I don't think you're crazy :) Now why didn't I think of using sudo? Maybe not crazy, but dim. Thanks :) It turns out that I have a software renderer on my server (upmpdcli) and it is listening on

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

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: So it is only iOS that has 30 days or is it just TV ? See http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/11/bbc-iplayer-ios-30-day-offline/ edit: According to various android sites v1.6.4 or BBC Radio IPlayer for Androids had updates to support 30 day ? I'm on the latest update of iPlayer

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Now why didn't I think of using sudo? Maybe not crazy, but dim. Thanks :) It turns out that I have a software renderer on my server (upmpdcli) and it is listening on 49152. To find out what the * is going on with 49153 and firewalls I'll do some tests and log what

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-03-22 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: :) I've pushed 0.2.0.1 in GitHub as stable as I discovered a few issues in 0.2.0.0 (on top of the 24/mono update). I recommend upgrading to this one as the issues can cause sq2u to crash, which is pretty irritating. Ralphy, if you don't mind may I sollicitate you

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I am not demanding anything, I'm trying to get the discussiin started. There is a point updating the plugin. The vast majority of LMS uses are not capable of patching the plugin. There are probably about 30 people in the world who have it working at the moment, based on

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I've written and published free open source software in the past and I've supported it, for the RISC OS community. I don't need telling what is involved in doing so. I am not demanding anyone do anything. I'm trying to explain what is needed to keep LMS alive for more

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Patches are not viable long term. In a year's time the patch list could be very large. Then there are the majority of LMS users who aren't capable of applying patches. By insisting on sticking to patches you are turning the iPlayer Plugin into a little clique of about 30

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announce: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: My time has been limited but I've found out that Arch Linux uses an alternative to init.d called systemd and the syntax and locations are somewhat different. I've done some experimentation but haven't been successful yet. When I get more time I'll follow up with more

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayerExtra v1.0

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Updated plugin to V1.8 1. Change to support BBCiPlayer changes because of BBC changes to Listen Again 2. Change order of programs to be the same as BBC website - so that Latest programs are now shown in reverse chronological order (i.e. most recent programs first) Add this

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I have done, but some of them are sales and marketing people and have no clue at all how to go about that. Why is there this assumption that anyone running LMS can dive in and edit files without cocking it up? That attitude dooms LMS to being run by quite a small number

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: This is well known and has been agreed. I am not in the UK and patches are necessary to test if they works for UK Listeners as well. Updating a plugin is not just a simple job of merge patches - it implies a willingness to be responsible for the plugin and this not for a few

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: We need an updated plugin. More patches are not helpful, especially for a non essential feature like pictures. The discussion about who might be able to update the plugin stalled, because at the time Listen Again was working. That is no longer the case. You seem to be

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: That worked, now on BBC iPlayer (v1.3.1alpha2). Haven't seen if it works yet. I think a fairy Godfather may be at work :) 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

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
ChipMonk wrote: New iPlayer plugin - we missed you. Great to have you back! Are you thinking of BBC iPlayer Extras? If so, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?72709-Announce-BBCiPlayerExtra-v1-0p=811920viewfull=1#post811920 LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
ChipMonk wrote: Go on, admit it. You're really loving it too. Moi? :D 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 (control point) to same renderers to

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
owen smith wrote: as i've said in a previous post, it is a great joy that triode is still with us and working on the iplayer plugin. Of course i'm grateful, but i'm probably a typical yorkshireman and don't say thankyou as often as i should. :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04,

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: It's not a complaint at all, it's a statement of fact. It's a shame we haven't got the 320kbps AAC Listen Again for Radio 3. ut a Text is a poor medium for communication and results in all sorts of mis-understandings, like this one. All the more reason to take care with

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