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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Looking in the server log, as expected the Radio 3 HLS Listen Again is 128kbps AAC. A shame, and the new plugin doesn't have a way to prefer RTMP/Flash for Listen Again. You may not mean it to be but this really sounds like a complaint about an unofficial, unannounced, alpha

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

2015-03-15 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: Working OK here, in UK. Although a couple of other stations wouldn't at first attempt, Radio2 for example. Then worked when clicked again. I'm rather hoping someone somewhere is rather enjoying watching us flail around getting stuff to work using an unannounced great

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: I did it the old fashioned geeky way.. viewed the source of one of the webpages :) didn't even think of googling This is one of those strange times when it seems whatever question I ask I get a hint at an answer, but not an answer I can understand! :D So, which page? I

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: No probs. I went to one of the 3 counties pages, for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecountiesradio/programmes/schedules Then scanned the source, the bits I could make sense of at least. I was trying to find the logo in the title, but found others in there. There seem

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
sweetda1 wrote: I think the answer to the question below is somewhere but I have not been able to trace it: I cannot Listen Again - I get the title screen and cover art but either the famous 'File not supported' or just a 'connecting' message. I have followed bpa's very clear

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: Try http://static.bbci.co.uk/branding/1.7.0/img/logos/masterbrands/bbc_three_counties_radio.png instead Thanks to you and PaulinPosset. Can either of you give me a clue what you googled for? I've tried and failed several times to find a suitable link. What am I doing wrong?

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
wilgartw wrote: thanks. i have read through that and copied the xml to /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/BBCiPlayer but i am unsure what i am to do with it. sorry i am clueless. Some of the following may vary between LMS versions, so you may have to modify

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: The following works using Chrome or Firefox: 1) type BBC 3 Counties radio logo into the search box for Google and hit enter 2) Chose an image and select by left clicking 3) Right click the image and you should have options, one of which is copy image URL 4)

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: Yes, see my post above. Also no Local Stations on Live Radio. Live Local stations can be resurrected by combining that section of the menu.opml circulated here previously with the new menu.opml from Triode. I have only tested my own station, but all I had to change was where it

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

2015-03-18 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: Many thanks for the tip. I had a quick look but noticed the following in the cmd window CallbackEventHandler:685 [02473150]: cannot create squeezelite instance cocktailAudio-X10 MediaRenderer There is an entry in the saved config.xml file for the CA. No entry for the CA Renderer

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: Hi Philippe, PasTim Here's what I did Downloaded 0.2.0.0 from https://github.com/philippe44/LMS-to-uPnP/blob/master/0.1.4.0/bin/squeeze2upnp.exe (Windows adds the (1) as I did not delete previous version) Screen shot (_02) of cmd window attached (same error as noted

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: My response with the config file pasted in has been blocked by the Forum saying it needs to be moderated .Or not apparently! Best crkm ps Any hints as to where the logs are logged, I'm sure its been asked before but pps Found it. To upload an xml, it

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: Log file attached or Not Forum doesn't like attaching logfiles either! so Logfile pasted [09:58:59.811] main:1223 !! ERROR LOADING CONFIG FILE ! [09:58:59.814] slimproto_loglevel:1001 slimproto change log [09:58:59.814]

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

2015-03-20 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: A commentator has pointed out on the BBC blog that BBC's own iPlayer web page is now playing Listen Again as RTMP whereas it was HDS. This made me think about a comment I saw somewhere by the BBC about the resilience of their streams, and I'm wondering whether RTMP might

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

2015-03-20 Thread PasTim
TheLastMan wrote: Long term the only options for getting LA on your hi-fi are likely to be: - iPlayer on your PC and hard wire audio cable from sound card to hi-fi - Bluetooth streaming from PC / phone / tablet (yuck!) - Some sort of Wi-fi streaming from a PC (Chromecast, DLNA?) - LMS

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

2015-03-20 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: ok - the ip : port parameter for upnp is available now (upnp_socket). The ones for LMS have been since the begining I couldn't get parameter that to work on my system. I've gone round the houses with ports and firewalls and come to the conclusion I still don't fully

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

2015-03-21 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: Port 1900 is used by the SSDP protocol. According to some old logs, 8080 is the port that your Marantz is using to receive upnp commands and I guess 5431 is the M1. I don't know why 80 is needed as well. What surprised me is I think you use ufw to deny traffic on outgoing

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

2015-03-21 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: To quote wikipedia: 224.0.0.1 The All Hosts multicast group addresses all hosts on the same network segment. Why your router would need to send to the all hosts multicast group to get this to work is far from clear. Surely this traffic is all internal to your

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

2015-03-21 Thread PasTim
The mystery of the upnp_socket parameter on my system. If I run with the default (value ?) it runs fine with my firewall on. The log reports using port 49153 at the start, and mentions 8080 for the player. Note that port 49153 is not open for incoming packets in my firewall. If I run with

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

2015-03-21 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: It is clear but very strange - I tried on my Linux box (a VM, no fw) and my Win7 box (fw), with various port, including the default one and it all worked. I put on purpose a wrong IP address, and in that case, the upnp stack does not initialize (error -208). It is even

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: Hi Philippe I've been running squeeze2upnp as administrator and the various logs etc. get created ok. For completeness, I've attached the log files and config.xml when running 0.2.0.0. Looks like there is an access issue. Very many thanks, once again. Your patience is much

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
On the BBC blog, Neil asked how to get 320 LA streams to VLC. Assuming you are on a PC with a working browser, if you play the program with the browser, and monitor the audio out with VLC, you can get good results. As to the quality, on my system if I right click on the image of the LA stream

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
sweetda1 wrote: Thank you. I have managed to insert the menu.opml file supplied by bonze (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-%28UK-only%29p=807276viewfull=1#post807276) but (a) how do I update the BBCiPlayerExtra to 1.8 - I only installed 1.7 a

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

2015-03-18 Thread PasTim
crkm wrote: I did succeed in getting access to the HLS live streams using Minimserever/streamer (on the Pi) and (via UPnP) Foobar to the AE. Minimserver is much simpler (easier) than LMS but doesn't have the amazing flexibility. The only other way I found to access Listen Again (I still

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

2015-03-20 Thread PasTim
djfake wrote: I believe my Beep is connecting at 49152, I have 9000 and 3483 open for LMS. Firewalls are always a good idea, and the fact that I have to turn mine off to get sq2u to work, I would also request to a config parameter for the port(s) to be specified. That it works well.

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

2015-03-20 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: I feel exactly the same way. It's such a shame that it wasn't a sufficient commercial success to sustain Logitech's interest. But, who knows, in light of this situation where it has massively outshone all the competition, maybe it's time for a relaunch? For me it's the

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

2015-03-17 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Thanks for the hack which I've used for my local BBC Station and also managed to get a logo displayed by searching for a suitable url, copying that to a text file, then replacing the non-working url's in menu.opml. Code: outline text=BBC

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: It's another term for AOD :) Audio On Demand or the Alcohol and Other Drugs (see http://www.acronymfinder.com/AOD.html) which may be needed to help one calm down about this fiasco. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp to

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: What is LA in this context? Listen Again or Acronym Hell.. 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

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: I've seen 320kbs LA streams with the android mediaset. The url names may imply128kbps, but if you look at the HLS master playlist it does declare the higher bit rate alternative. Unless something has changed very recently... - I'm unable to look at the moment. I used another

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Probably not by enough for me to buy a Transporter. All I want is something simple that plays 24/96, and a Touch isn't it. As a matter of interest, what's wrong with a Touch? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp to MF

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
The RTMP streams now don't work on my Internet Radios (Marantz and MF), and display a message saying the format was changed today. How helpful. 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)

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
moletteuk wrote: I've submitted my complaint to the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/ It's all a bit over my head, but I'm pretty upset about this, I use the iplayer plugin for at least an hour every day...well I did. Anyway, I want to say thanks in advance and that

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Appreciate your action, but it's futile. You'll just get a pro-forma reply from a drone. Write to the Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee at Parliament. get a pro-forma reply from a drone :( LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit,

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
There is a piece of open source software the BBC don't like that still works. It also supplies Radio 3 (at least - I haven't tried others) in 320kbps AAC format. I will listen and then delete the program, which I believe is quite legal and above board. They are forcing me to do this. I

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Don't want something with a large display that sticks up, don't need anything that complicated. I use a Receiver at present, this is ideal for my needs in every way except it doesn't do 24/96. I was hoping the John Swenson project would provide a replacement for it, but

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: Not necessarily - there are named MPs on the committee (and will be after the fiasco of an election in May!) See: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/contact-us/

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
ilainftw wrote: The BBC stopped providing (or began hiding) the R3 LA 320k HLS versions 2-3 weeks ago. Seemed a bit like rubbing salt in the wound. So, as usual, no one seems to know that the BBC's plans are, least of all probably the BBC itself. If it wasn't so irritating I'd find it rather

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
One of my solutions to get the sound back on my lounge hifi is to play the stream from the BBC website on my wireless laptop. I then monitor the output and use vlc to stream that (wirelessly again) to a favourite stored on LMS and then play that on my hifi. It's a bit of a palava, and trying it

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

2015-03-09 Thread PasTim
expectingtofly wrote: .. That gets you the RTMP streams. For the HLS streams there is a slightly different hack. But we really ought to do this properly Thanks very much indeed. Works perfectly. We are very fortunate in having skilled people such as yourself around to keep our show on

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: A question about the HLS Listen Again streams (those that can now be accessed via the hack) - are they 128kbps or 320kbps. I ask because if the LA HLS streams are only 128 kbps it would be better to stay (for now) on the rtpm streams (certainly as far as Radio 3 is

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
ukslim wrote: Not to defend the BBC to firmly, because this is a debacle, however: I think it's important that we all keep in mind the conflicting demands the BBC has. Many of their programs contain licensed content (easiest example: music) that they're only allowed to broadcast under

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
SteveSmythe wrote: Yes, I deleted it. When I restarted the LMS, it didn't get created again. Just tried again and, although it cache.db hasn't re-appeared (should I be worried?), the Radio 4 LA stream is now working. Thanks. If it works, I wouldn't be worried :) The file will no doubt

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
SteveSmythe wrote: I have got the iPlayer, listen live and listen again (LA) working fine using the instructions above, but I can't clear the cache. LA channels I hadn't listened to before editing the BBCXMLParser.pm are working OK but LA on Radio 4 (which I had been trying to listen to

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Thanks for checking. I've tried both RTMP and the HLS hack, currently using the HLS hack, but if you've got both working it must be something at my end! I've looked at the URL's and they're a different format to each other. This one works: Code:

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Yup, that sorted it. 2 cache.db files in the folder so deleted both, re-booted for good measure and all now working. Thanks PasTim and expectingtofly.:D With all this going on it's great to have support from so many people. The only problem is keeping up with the sheer

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
djfake wrote: Works! I turned the firewall off and I had it playing (not standby) when I reran the first command to write the xml file! The amount of trouble I've had with firewalls hiding stuff...Glad to hear you made progress. Getting firewall settings right for UPnP seemed a

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
It's great that people are responding here. However, as castalla asked, if corrections or clarifications are needed to the initial instructions, can you first send him a private message suggesting the change? That way the first post can be kept up to date and people won't have to search though

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
expectingtofly wrote: I've been having a browse of Triode's implementation of the RTMP transport protocol in perl as part of the IPlayer App. I've also been having a look at what other people have done implementing the HLS transport in scripting languages. I didn't see anything that

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
finemind wrote: Thanks PasTim. Time to put on a serious pot of coffee. And something stronger once you have it working :) 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

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
finemind wrote: Hi, could somebody kindly point me to a fix on this thread or elsewhere for Listen Again on LMS running on a Synology DS213j nas? Or put me out of my misery if it's not possible. Does this work?

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: On Windows 7 LMS, by default, automatically installs a LMS tray icon in the notification area of the Taskbar (i.e. to the right of the bar at the bottom of the screen - assuming you haven't moved the Taskbar elsewhere). The best way to stop/start LMS on Windows is to right

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
djfake wrote: Hi I am trying to get a Beep (http://thisisbeep.com) to work with LMS. It is Upnp compatible. I first ran this LMS-to-uPnP-master/dev/bin$ ./squeeze2upnp-x86 -i config.xml [16:38:01.739761] slimproto_loglevel:1002 slimproto change log [16:38:01.739926] stream_loglevel:292

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 there a

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

2015-03-06 Thread PasTim
I've been using squeeze2upnp with the new PlayHLS plugin for BBCiPlayer. It works very well both for live listening and with the current (RTMP) listen again service, on both my UPnP renderers. So when the FM signal is bad (which happens periodically) or the DAB signal is bad (which is all the

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

2015-03-06 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Half an hour (I'm new to all this stuff) of hacking and hey presto, it does indeed work! Many thanks to expectingtofly :D Indeed. When I tried the same proof of concept I didn't get ', hls' being displayed after the 128kbps CBR string, but it did work, and the URL in the

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: Hello, Like many others, I'm very, very, very irritated by this debacle. I've been largely addicted to Squeezeboxes and Triode's and bpa's wonderful work from AlienBBC onwards for the last 8 years. My system is now largely useless as far as I can tell. I do have the live

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: Yes indeed - many of those work fine for me. But, I would dearly like to be able to listen to stuff from the last week. Bizarrely, the News Quiz Series 86 Ep. 1 works, but Eps. 2 and 3 don't. This makes no sense to me at all. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the nuke and

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: I'm afraid that they are - both Live and On-Demand are set to AACFlashAACFlashMP3WMA However, I tried switching off 'Allow Transcoding' on the same page, and now Tweet of the Day works! Disappointingly, as far as I can tell, nothing else does, though - It reports 'PROBLEM:

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: Here's what I've tried: (All from Radio 4 FM) all the currently available Afternoon Drama episodes The News Quiz - both Friday and Saturday edition Midnight News (any of the currently available) 15 Minute Drama (all available) Inside Science (16:30 on 5th March) Plus

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: Haven't yet started the rebuild. Under the AAC format I have: AAC - Native FLAC - faad/flac MP3 - disabled PCM - faad I don't think I changed any of the custom-convert.conf settings. Should I have? If so, I'm happy to. That looks fine. And double-check that the iPlayer

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

2015-03-07 Thread PasTim
StephenC wrote: Interesting. In which case maybe something that I changed in the early days of the debacle (mid-Feb) broke it - I edited the opml file as detailed elsewhere (I'll edit this post shortly, once I find the source). Although I didn't make any changes until it was already not

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]' Any

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: My understanding is that most of the software packages that capture the audio on a PC do so after the audio has been passed through the PC's soundcard and it is then re-digitised. One exception is a Total Recorder which captures the audio in the digital domain. That may depend

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
ukslim wrote: This is called 'the analogue hole' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole) in any copy protection scheme, and it's inevitable. But there are other inevitable holes in copy-protection because it has to be in some unprotected state at some point between the network and the

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
ftlight wrote: Nick Reynolds has just closed the BBC blog thread to comments. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/234a65f0-89c1-489c-b6e9-55d2de932e53?filter=none#comments Now what? Complain again to the BBC, radio 4 Feedback, emails to Mr Hall et al, MP committees, and so on, not

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
Notwithstanding some theories expounded her and on the defunct blog, I still believe this was an almighty cock-up rather than a conspiracy. They thought they were saving money and asked Internet Radio manufacturers if moving off WMA to AAC would be a problem. The answers would have been mostly

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
SuffolkPunch wrote: Thanks again. Library.db -is- in the same folder as cache.db. So I guess that's the right cache. Other edits? I don't think so. But what if I reinstalled the BBCiPlayer plugin just to eliminate that possibility (assuming it replaces both .pm files)? I can't remember

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
SuffolkPunch wrote: Thanks. I deleted (actually, renamed) the cache.db in folder C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox. Is that the right cache? My BBCiPlayer plugin is v1.2.14 (unchanged by me until today). Is that the latest? If you reply Yes to both these questions, then I'm stumped! Martin

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
SuffolkPunch wrote: Thanks for this. I find it reinstates Listen Again for everything -except -radio 4FM! My system details: Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.5 - 1416570306 @ Thu Nov 27 07:38:09 CUT 2014 Operating system: Windows 7 - EN - cp1252 Platform Architecture: 8664 Perl

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: There's a new Twitter feed: #bbcaudiofail Don't use twitter myself , so on you go Me neither. 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

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
Peter314 wrote: Thanks for all your help with this issue. I tried the change listed above and it restored LA for Radio 3 and Radio 4 (albeit without pictures :)) but Radio 2 LA gives a Problem: can't open file for... message. Editing for the HLS stream per your later post didn't change

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

2015-03-10 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: There have been no pictures for several weeks. I'm not sure whether they went before or after Audio Factory was introduced. I can live without pictures, this is radio. I didn't even notice the pictures had gone, so happy was I to get decent sound again. LMS 7.9 on

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: I've been following all the way and had Play Live Streams working well on both Windows 7 and SOA/Wandboard. Today performed change to BBCXMLParser.pm and all seems to be working well on both systems on LA. Bit confused on RTMP/HLS Issue. Which should I be hearing and how

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a window asking if you want to logoff, start the Task Manager, and various other options on modern versions of Windows. Only a very small number of things you can select on there will restart LMS (eg. Reboot the PC). Please don't quote Ctrl-Alt-Del as

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Clearing the cache.db files is an absolute must. I had a curious mix of RTMP and HLS Listen Again streams after installing on the music server The reason was that I had only been deleting the cache.db-shm and cache.db-wal files. After deleting all 3 cache files (it was

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 makes

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/PiCorePlayer,

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

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
markiii wrote: anyone managed to get the program information displaying when using the HLS streams yet? All I get is the Radio 1, Radio 2 logo e.t.c No, not for Live radio. 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

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
As I understand it the cache.db file does get cleared periodically anyway. However if you have been using a stream, do one of the fixes, and then try it again without clearing the cache it won't work straight away. That's why the advice is to clear it to be sure it will work. LMS 7.9 on

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
alveus wrote: Because when the updates from 7.4.0 first came out they completely b***d up my system. Funnily enough, I use this product to listen to music and the radio, not to play around with coding and IT. This was sold to me as a consumer item, and as far as I am concerned this

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Exit Google Code, stage left

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
To any of you really helpful developers using Google Code, have you seen this? It seems the service is being shut down completely by January 2016. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/12/google_code_shutdown/ To users of any code obtained from there, it might be a good idea to take a full copy

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Exit Google Code, stage left

2015-03-13 Thread PasTim
mherger wrote: To any of you really helpful developers using Google Code, have you seen this? It seems the service is being shut down completely by January 2016. Plugin developers: please let me know your new repository URL if you're currently hosting it on Google Code. Thanks!

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: BBCiPlayer Plugin (UK only)

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
alveus wrote: Anyone know where the LA cache is held in 7.4.0? I've updated the parser and all LA streams that I never listen to are working except BBC R4 FM. I suspect this has been cached, but can't find any cache.db or similar files in \Squeezebox\Cache. Does the Settings,

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: squeeze2upnp, a bridge between LMS and uPNP devices

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: Thanks Tim Not having much success with finding the init files so will have a look at Server Power Control - haven't used it for years so it will be another re-learning curve. I put quite detailed instructions in the sq2u User Guide so it should be fairly easy, unless my

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
djfake wrote: you can download a template init file here, https://github.com/fhd/init-script-template I created a file called sq2u from the template, then just fill out this section (my e.g., ymmv ) dir=/usr/sbin/sq2u user=root cmd=./squeeze2upnp-x86 make it executable: chmod +x

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
djfake wrote: Firewalls are a good thing! What ports does sq2u use? Looks like 49494 for the renderer... Yes, but on my system the ports seems to vary. I gave up and opened up a range in the 3 to 4s. There are some other 'standard' ones that ufw says need to be open, such as: Code:

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: Just installed Ralphy's static binary on my SqueezeOnArch/Wandboard Quad. Used stable version 0.1.4.0. Works fine for both locally stored flac music collection and indeed for current BBC HLS/RTMP Live/Listen again configuration. This is a good solution for me as my wandboard

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: oh, no, I'm not actually doing anything useful to contribute :) As far as I can recall (not a lot) you contributed the amended live menus, which was a major benefit to mankind (well me anyway)! My perl knowledge is currently very limited and I seem to break more than I actually

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

2015-03-12 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: I agree. Products should never be shoehorned into a platform. It is totally outrageous. A joke, right? 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

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

2015-03-11 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: Thanks Tim. I've got to the right place (RTMP LA) - somehow. Everything working fine. Look forward to a new thread. Following not directed at anyone and not meant in a negative sense. Perhaps communication with BBC should also have a new thread as a lot of the

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: OK, that is weird. The log I posted before was from Squeezeplay on a PC. I just tried it on a Touch and it connected and played first time! Squeezeplay on a PC running Windows? I saw the following when playing using iPlayerExtra (in the log I attached previously). I am

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: Running Windows 7 and have tested both iPlayer and iPlayer Extras and both play correctly. Ah well. Anyone else got any ideas? This is really rather strange. I have played this several times and never had a single problem, iPlayer or iPlayer Extras. Just now I even

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: These are RTMP streams. If you use iPlayerExtras you get the RTMP streams (the alpha BBCiPlayer plugin does the playing of these still, but can only do so via the iPlayerExtras plugin). It's not clear to me if the problem has also been seen with this program on these streams,

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: Things I've tried: LMS 7.9 running on a windows server. Squeezeplay on Windows desktop doesn't work Touch works SB3 doesn't work Hope that helps :p Something to do with transcoding - the Touch is newer and none is needed? But how can that be for just a very few

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Also could someone humour me and see if the problem also occurs with Stephen Nolan (any weekday) on Radio Ulster. I now you are mainly asking about those who are having problems, but from someone who hasn't had problems, that also works OK on my system. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi,

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: Well they don't appear at all for working streams, so for sure this problem causes them, even if there may be other causes too. Is there any option for a newer version of faad on Windows? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16-24 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: Squeezelite doesn't work here either - same as Squeezeplay. Probably depends on exact codecs installed. Weird it affects just this stream though. Both working and non-working streams are reported by the LMS web client as 128kbs CBR aac. What O/S are you running LMS on? LMS

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