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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: These logs show the first 3 chunks of HLS audio have been received correctly but I think that 'consecutiveErrors: 1' means that something downstream of the plugin doesn't like the aac adts stream that has been decoded in the plugin from the mpeg2 ts. Looks to be repeatable at

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: That is exactly what happens when we use Squeezelite - if Squeezelite decodes all is good, if LMS tries to decode to flac or MP3 it fails. We are still unclear though if it is socketwrapper or faad at fault. On Windows, but OK on linux. For instance, I am decoding aac to pcm to

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: Ahhh! Probably too much for me! A brief search only turned this up: http://www.rarewares.org/files/aac/faad2-20100614.zip. It's old, so I'm not too hopeful, but you never know! Tried just copying into the folder and as bpa indicated it did not work. Someone else could

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Paulin is using squeezelite, which can consume aac natively if libfaad is installed. That may be a different setup to those that have seen failure using squeezelite as the local player. So for those who are having problems using local player it may be worth trying to use the

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Actually, there are frequent adts headers in each chunk - every 360 bytes or so. This stream is just unlucky in that the point the code starts searching for the header there is something that looks like a header before the next real header. Extraordinarily quick and good work

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: AFAIKT The HLS streams for Monday's 'Stephen Nolan' are simply missing. I did a few tests for Monday 23rd's 'Stephen Nolan'. It works on Android, Desktop Browser (Chromium/linux), BBCiPlayerExtras plugin, but not on BBCiPlayer plugin. So as you say it seems to be an HLS problem.

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: That's a good point. Android is using a different Id for Monday program: p02mlnws, compared to b05n2088 which the xml feed used by BBCiPlayer comes up with. Sounds like a screw up in the xml data (or possibly with the id the android ap finds). Edit: And Desktop browser id is

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: You might also want to mention that the alpha update (currently) only plays on-demand Radio 3 at 128 kbps and that to get the 320kbps with the BBC iPlayer plugin you still need to use the original plugin plus the fixes (including the RTMP fix). For Radio 3 listeners it might

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
Shellness wrote: Thank you. I took the plunge and it works a treat. 339kbps CBR, aac on all channels bar the World Service. And I get the station artwork (which I never did before). It is surprising how much I missed the iPlayer iPlayer Extras. For the record, the performance of

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

2015-03-25 Thread PasTim
Shellness wrote: I'm on v1.7. (In response to PasTim, I'm also on Linux.) Try 1.8 (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 bit, 44.1-192kbps. LMS Squeeze2upnp

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Here is another bit of patching to make the song info and icon from RadioVis actually update in the web interface with the BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha2 plugin. At about line 208 in RadioVis.pm, add the lines in red: Code: my $notify =

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: Are we sure it's deliberate? No :) 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 upmpdcli/mpd PC

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: I think it is the Beeb playing around again... Your vpid and another I've just tried give a 'Not Found' http reply (for hls) using the 'audio-syndication' mediaset, but are ok (as hls) with the android-phone-rtmp-high and apple-ipad-hls mediasets. I wonder why they feel the

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

2015-04-01 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: I can't really recommend this, because apart from anything else it will make the BBC think your squeezebox is a tablet. But if you are really missing BBC World Service LA, the following 1 line patch in iPlayer.pm (around line 197 for alpha3 plugin, similar in alpha2 plugin) will

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

2015-04-01 Thread PasTim
Is anyone else finding the live service a little unstable with the last 1.3.1alpha3 plugin? On Radio 3 it's stopped several times and I had to manually restart. It could, of course, be the BBC. As an experiment I have raised the FETCH_CHUNKS up to 2 (from 1) in HLS.pm (see

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
d6jg wrote: Its a very good idea and can I suggest that you summarise the current status of the various plugin options and version numbers. My aim would be not to provide options, just a single alternative solution (using 2 plugins plus patches) to the first PlayHLS solution for listening to

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
Is it getting to the point where either need some brave soul(s) to publish a patched version of the 3 or 4 programs that have had sundry patches, possibly plus a patched menu.opml (for local stations that don't appear in the live version and also possibly for icons) or a set of more formal

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
ChipMonk wrote: BBC iPlayer 1.3.1alpha3 is indeed now available from Triode Works a treat. What a star he is. Thanks Triode! I started to draft something for a new summary thread which was going to involve either a load of patches, or a consolidated version of patches to Triode's programs,

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
Post reserved for future changes to this set of solutions. 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 upmpdcli/mpd

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

2015-03-31 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Probably is worth the new summary thread to point people at - it should be fairly stable now I guess. Done, at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103435-BBCiPlayer-Plugins-an-alternative-quick-fix-guidep=814250viewfull=1#post814250 . LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu

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

2015-03-23 Thread PasTim
kidstypike wrote: Working fine for me (UK), sometimes needs a few clicks on the play button to get it started. I think the search they are referring to is BBC's own iPlayer app on a tablet, nothing to do with LMS. 17739 Same here. And yes, there's no search on this plugin. The

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

2015-04-01 Thread PasTim
I will endeavour to watch this thread (and other related threads such as the extras one) for significant changes and update the guide at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103435-BBCiPlayer-Plugins-an-alternative-quick-fix-guidep=814250viewfull=1#post814250. The only problem is that the

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

2015-04-01 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: Ask a nice mod for a 'sticky' ? I wonder how I would do that. Is there a moderator these days, and if so who? I shall try to contact the 'site administrator' and see what happens. 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)

2015-04-01 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: Hey everyone! Didn't want to clutter up the quick fix guide, so I'll post here. If I read the QFG correctly, Triode has not updated FAAD.EXE. And presumably when he updates his plugin his version of FAAD overwrites any changes we make (if we have auto updates enabled

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 the

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 Type

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 Lame

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 (control

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

2015-03-05 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: IIRC, the BBC gives undertakings to the owner of the music etc. about how music/video will be broadcast in a secure way that protects the owner's rights - if the BBC broadcasting system does not meet these undertakings then litigation could follow. But that's my point.

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

2015-03-04 Thread PasTim
majones wrote: Andrew Scott (post 174 on his BBC blog) says he's been in contact with Triode about Listen Again. He also says the timetable for the RTMP streams is not yet locked down as they were independent of the contract deadline which drove WMA switch off, and the associated changes.

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

2015-02-28 Thread PasTim
I think we have to assume Triode may not be back any time soon, if at all. It would anyway be unwise to expect someone who has given enormous amounts of his time to our collective benefit being willing to continue doing so forever. Why should he (or indeed she)? So the question becomes how can

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

2015-03-01 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: I'm sorry, but is this speculation really helpful? No. It's a private matter for Triode. We should just wish him well. 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.

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

2015-03-01 Thread PasTim
ModelCitizen wrote: Sorry for off-the-wall interjection. I have two Radios. On one the BBC iPlayer plugin functions as it should but on the other I get that droney voice muttering about Shoutcast. Can anyone tell me why one should work but not the other? Thanks. A really big shame about

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

2015-03-05 Thread PasTim
I find the BBC's secrecy strange and futile. It isn't hard to record a live, or listen again stream, on a PC (even for me) so why the paranoia about get_iplayer or the BBCiPlayer plugin? Surely they should just make very clear what the rules are, and let people get on with it. My

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Got the T-shirt for that one already. see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103158-Announce-PlayHLS-Plugin-plugin-to-play-Apple-HLS-m3u8-streamp=808418viewfull=1#post808418 So you have. It is different from my LMS, although I don't know if LMS sets itself up differently

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

2015-02-25 Thread PasTim
I managed to get through to someone at Musical Fidelity. They only built one Internet Radio, the M1 CLiC, about 5 years ago, but it is no longer in production. It supports compressed live aac and wma, plus 'listen again' streams. Suffice to say their technical people say they have never heard

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I already use something called Non-Sucking Service Manager to run uTorrent in background as a Windows Service and start it automatically. It's almost certainly capable of doing the same for squeeze2upnp, the issue becomes if the software has a graphical UI that you have to

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: No I have not tried anything yet. I have no experience with github and I'm not keen to find out. Doesn't this just install as a plugin like other LMS stuff? No, it is not a plugin, it is a separate program. Download the 'readme' and 'new user guide' from the link I

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Cheenis wrote: Sorry to be so Unix illiterate, but how do I take this file from the zip file and overwrite it on my Unix based NAS box? I have connected with Putty via ssh. I have found the directory (cd /volume1/@appstore/SqueezeCenter/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/BBCiPlayer) I have

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I'm on Windows Home Server V1, running the WHS Add-In version of LMS 7.8. I run the server headless and rarely log in to it, if there's a power cut it all just comes back up without any intervention from me. Can squeeze2upnp do that or does it need running from a logged in

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Has anyone used Squeeze2upnp with an Oppo 93 or 95 blu ray player? (they run the same firmware so should behave identically). I have the Oppo 95 with the Sabre DACs. All I really want is a Receiver that does 24/96, but in the absence of that (I hoped Community Squeeze was

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: The artwork has been missing on iPlayer plugin Listen Again for some weeks, at least for Radio 3. But Listen Again still gives programme info, whereas the current HLS solution for live radio gives a logo but no programme info. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04,

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

2015-02-21 Thread PasTim
boardtc wrote: Hi, I have BBC iPlayer v1.2.14 installed. Over the last few weeks trying to play shows I get the repeating message saying the bbc no longer support streaming to windows media or such. I am using the logitech server on WHS. I have read back a bunch of pages but am I am still

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
doctor_big wrote: Phillipe arranged for a whs version for me... Check back earlier in the thread. Jason I think it's at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?102496-announce-squeeze2upnp-a-bridge-between-LMS-and-uPNP-devicesp=803824viewfull=1#post803824 LMS 7.9 on VortexBox

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] The New HSL files on windows PC

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
VFRBOB wrote: Sorry where do we find menu.opml file ? Would it be in my WHS server or do I look for it in the Squeezebox GUI Thanks Steve The original file (to be replaced) should be at ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins\Plugins\BBCiPlayer\menu.opml on your WHS server.

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

2015-02-22 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I'll have to have words with the person at work who told me it was a lot more complex than that. He was trying to persuade me how great it was for source control (we use Perforce at work - not my choice) and ended up putting me off it for life. Of course the very name

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
If ffmpeg will run on Synology on a command line as admin:user and for a BBC HLS link, but not when run as admin from LMS, then compiling another version of ffmpeg is most unlikely to help. 'Operation Not Permitted' must imply some form of permissions problem. This might be due to some form of

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: I thought it was to do with path so I rename libraries, changed permission, inserted wrong version, etc. and in all cases I got an error message that was clear (e.g. couldn't open/load file) and not operation not permitted error. However, when I changed an input decoder

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: ffmpeg already handles HLS. Also, given a choice of an Adobe standard or an Apple standard, I go with Apple assuming there are no important technical differences. And DASH would be even better if the Beeb gets round to it since it is an open international standard (what me,

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Klammer (armada370 based Synology) is the only Synology with the problem persisting. ffmpeg doesn't work when run from a shell prompt under userid admin but works nder user id root. This is not the case for other Synology NASs. Also on armda370 Synology, ffmpeg (owned by user

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

2015-02-21 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: BBC have changed things around in the last few weeks - I haven't done anything with Extras for a while so I guess it has been broken - too busy with PlayHLS. Extras is still working for some programmes on my system. Some are wma and don't play, some are aac and do. I haven't

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

2015-02-25 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: I don't know very much about any of this but the on-demand URLs are more complicated than the live URLs. It is my understanding that the information for the current streams is published in an XML file which, for example, Triode's iPlayer plugin accesses, e.g. this for Radio

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

2015-02-24 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: A dilemma I have at the moment is that I am reluctant to produce a V1.2 of the plugin because it would trigger an install which would overwrite all customisations users have made to the plugin files and so break their BBC radio. Including a ffmpeg replacement binary in the plugin

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

2015-03-24 Thread PasTim
Davidg1 wrote: I can confirm that Monday's Stephen Nolan fails even with local player plugin (Squeezelite WITH libfaad2.dll) and a SB Radio, so that is a different problem. I can also confirm that this program fails on linux with squeezelite (local or remote on linux), and on my Touch. The

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

2015-03-19 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: They are RTMP. But not all 320kbps. 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 upmpdcli/mpd PC

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

2015-03-23 Thread PasTim
castalla wrote: There isn't one! You might get away with installing the iplayer plugin update Add this to Additional Repositories in Settings - Plugins - then restart LMS Code: http://triodeplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/testrepo.xml

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

2015-01-29 Thread PasTim
magee35 wrote: I hate to post into this thread with entry-level beginner's questions but don't seem to be attracting any attention here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?102994-Help-with-plugins-for-Squeezebox I would like to buy plugin(s) that allow playing from my music

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

2015-01-30 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: There is a difference between a port that needs to be always left open to receive asynchronous incoming connection requests and outcoming ports used by applications requiring a temporary connection (srcip:port == dstip:port). Incoming, always-open, ports requires a

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

2015-03-23 Thread PasTim
donmatter wrote: Very many thanks bpa and PasTim, iPlayer Extras plugin working fine (except only for last week's Desmond Carrington!) However, I now have three more weeks to get it to work for which very many thanks again. Very strange. It still works for me with both iPlayer and iPlayer

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

2015-03-23 Thread PasTim
donmatter wrote: I've tried every programme from After Midnight to Weekend Wogan and the most start attempts needed is two. Most start after one. Most report 127Kbps CBR, aac especially if they need a second start. Desmond Carrington is the _only_ one which doesn't work, it seems stuck on

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

2015-03-23 Thread PasTim
donmatter wrote: Very many thanks bpa and PasTim, iPlayer Extras plugin working fine (except only for last week's Desmond Carrington!) However, I now have three more weeks to get it to work for which very many thanks again. Try this. Stop LMS. Delete file cache.db from your LMS 'cache

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

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
JohnB wrote: Inside the UK, opening the links in Windows, the first option points to a master.m3u8 file which contains: Code: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=62000,CODECS=mp4a.40.2

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

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
Erland, I'm having a problem with Custom Scan kicking off when I don't want it to. See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103441-Can-I-stop-all-automatic-rescansp=814391viewfull=1#post814391. I essence I need to have Custom Scan run automatically after a normal LMS rescan, which I

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

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
PasTim wrote: Is anyone else finding the live service a little unstable with the last 1.3.1alpha3 plugin? On Radio 3 it's stopped several times and I had to manually restart. It could, of course, be the BBC. As an experiment I have raised the FETCH_CHUNKS up to 2 (from 1) in HLS.pm

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

2015-04-02 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Ah, perhaps I understand - I think you are just pasting the url, rather than curl url. To do with how the posts display urls causing confusing perhaps? Does this help: curl

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

2015-04-03 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: For the adventurous, I've been having a play with adding live updating text for the all the BBC radio channels - since RadioVis only provides text information for Radio1 and 1xtra. I've done this with regular http polling (every 30 seconds) of a URL that is used by the

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

2015-04-11 Thread PasTim
tallpaul wrote: OK, it turns out that not only are they both there but the faad in the git is binary identical (a 'cmp' reveals ;)) so that simplifies matters. So the steps now are: - Go to https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/tree/public/7.9/Bin/x86_64-linux and download

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

2015-04-11 Thread PasTim
bpa wrote: Disable FileTypes AAC native - that will force transcoding and will not send AAC to players that can play AAC natively. If you suggest a procedure - you should always test it and then also state on which systems it has been tested otherwise say it is untested. I've tried that

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

2015-04-14 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: I never use the Web GUI. I use any of Duet Controller, SqueezePlay on my Vista laptop, or iPengHD 1.4.17 on my iOS 6 iPad. I see others agree that the bit rate is missing from the More Info - menu. I almost always use a Web GUI (on a laptop) which just goes to show how

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

2015-04-20 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: (Reposting this from the setup thread - sorry about that) I've just installed the new plugins and faad on Windows 64 bit server, and the streams seem to stop after 5-10 seconds. My server is on Azure, so is currently reporting a Dublin IP address, so BBC thinks I'm

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

2015-04-20 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: To be fair, I think these are iPlayer update specific. I don't have any other problems like this one with other radio streams or playing my music library, nor did I have these problems with the old iPlayer plugins. So, this does seem specific to these updates to me. The BBC

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

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
utgg wrote: Good theory, but I think the evidence from the log is that the data isn't being cut off - the first 32 seconds of stream data has definitely been received in the plugin, but only the first 3 seconds or so is played before the rest is lost somewhere in the transcode system. But

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

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: Firstly, thanks for the help and efforts on this - i do realise it's a bit of an edge case but, as you say, although it may be unique today it's probably uncovering some odd bufering issue which might show up for others and also as we all transition to cloud, others will

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

2015-04-24 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: Embrace the Cloud! I must admit I worried much more about losing stuff through drive failure than I do about big brother wanting to listen to my Abba Greatest Hits album ;-). Now it's nice and safely stored elsewhere, backed up etc.. Backups are easy - I have 3 in different

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

2015-04-25 Thread PasTim
Giza2020 wrote: Final had 5 mins to do the love text patch and worked a treat (would have been 5 mins if my phone hadn't renamed the patch .txt but hey at least i worked it out But amazing work all! !! CheersI've been a bit under the weather lately (a heavy cold in late April - gr),

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

2015-04-25 Thread PasTim
Giza2020 wrote: Thanks to the help of the guys in general discussions i have found out why i had buffering issues and thought it worth sharing in case or helps others. My tv is connected to my lan and when it was on it would show my squeezebox server to a crawl. .it turns out upnp was

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

2015-04-20 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: I'm hearing the non-UK streams, but after about 5-10 seconds, they fade out - seems to be consistent across all of the channels. If I leave it running, it will sometimes restart, so it could be a nasty buffering problem. However, the VM running the server doesn't normally

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

2015-04-20 Thread PasTim
psketch wrote: So, Listen Live seems to stop on all channels - examples are ... BBC Radio 4 101kbps CBR, AAC SBR BBC Radio 5 Live 101kbps CBR, AAC SBR But, tried a couple of OnDemand, and they seem OK - although at a lower BR 5 live Sport: The Monday Night Club: 20/04/2015

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

2015-04-29 Thread PasTim
d6jg wrote: Ah. All of the 24bit tracks he has are sourced from HD Tracks UK store. Do you still have the problem with that source or is it resolved? I've had 24 bit flac tracks from various UK and EU sources and never had a problem with LMS, Touch or sq2u to 2 different UPnP devices. I

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

2015-04-29 Thread PasTim
d6jg wrote: None of the players I referred to are mentioned in comparability on git. I need to get a dlna player to try sq2u properly. I wonder whether it will recognise one of these ? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00O0U37HO?vs=1 As a first start you could try software players. I seem to

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

2015-05-02 Thread PasTim
scgf wrote: I followed the instructions in this thread, and updated LMS to 7.9. The strange thing is that iPlayer on demand streams work from all stations apart from the one I listen to most - Radio 4. If I switch to Radio 4 LW I can listen to the streams but not from radio 4 FM - since the

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

2015-05-01 Thread PasTim
PaulinPosset wrote: That's good news Philippe. I think the Github approach and knowing what files to download is rather daunting for many. In practice, certainly for Windows, it looks way more difficult than it actually is and if, using Windows as an example, the 3 files needed plus

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
bonze wrote: If I knew how to highlight I would post the additional lines. :) try this In square brackets put color=red, and /color after. 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)

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
mrw wrote: I think I must have inadvertently frightened the horses. :( Nay, thrice Neigh :) Player (i.e Touch, Classic, Controller, Squeezeplay) track context menus under 'more info' is where the bitrate stream type shows up. The web interface gives the expected result, so must be sourcing

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: Both patches clearly state in the comments they are about jive/ip3k players. Eg. Receiver, Boom, Classic, or Transporter are ip3k cpu based. As I said, not in any language I understand - I've never heard of jive or ip3k :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: okay ... I've done an *EXPERIMENTAL* version of a plugin to make squeeze2upnp easy to use. You need to add the following repo Code: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26754471/squeezecenter/repo.xml Please, be very

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
Some players (Touch, Classic, Controller, Squeezeplay) do not display the bit rate or codec correctly. If this is important to you, see post #3 on this thread. 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

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
One question. How do I specify additional options? I tried using the original xml syntax (upnp_socket192.168.1.10:49153/upnp_socket) and that doesn't seem to have worked. If you need help with the user guide (if you think you want to continue to maintain it), let me know. LMS 7.9 on

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
ian_heys wrote: Sorry to say I'm having some instability problems too. I have three servers: Desktop1 Ubuntu 14.04/LMS 7.7.6 - Desktop2 Windows 7/LMS 7.9.0 Micro (Headless) Wandboard/LMS 7.8.1 I was going to give you a status on each of these but now getting: Bad repository

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

2015-05-07 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: oh, I see the confusion: the additional option are command line options, the one you get when you launch squeeze2upnp -h. For the out of date problem, I have it as well now so I have to understand why ... as I'm not pushing an update every 15 min :) But I'll add the

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

2015-05-06 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: For that option you can use the command line options that is available just at the top of the config screen. You can also still edit manually the xml file, I've added the path so that it is easy to find On a different note I've seen that on windows the app sometimes does

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

2015-05-08 Thread PasTim
Mardler wrote: I'm not wading through 340 pages so apologies if my simple question was answered 200 pages back! I came to this late, yesterday in fact. No BBC Radio on SBT. Someone here posted that the BBC streaming web page url worked so I tried

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

2015-05-05 Thread PasTim
mrw wrote: I've noticed that stream type bitrate reporting is a bit 'off' in the 1.3.1alpha3 plugin. (Player context menus under 'more info'). The attached proof of concept patches (somewhat over annotated) appear to remedy matters satisfactorily for me, and I offer them up to anyone

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

2015-05-05 Thread PasTim
Owen Smith wrote: It depends on your player type whether you see any change. My Receiver shows just AAC LC but with the patch it should show the bit rate as well on More Info. Ah - we are talking about the player displays, not the Web GUI are we? My mistake. I've hardly ever used the player

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

2015-05-05 Thread PasTim
mrw wrote: I've noticed that stream type bitrate reporting is a bit 'off' in the 1.3.1alpha3 plugin. (Player context menus under 'more info'). The attached proof of concept patches (somewhat over annotated) appear to remedy matters satisfactorily for me, and I offer them up to anyone

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

2015-05-05 Thread PasTim
TiagoOliveira wrote: So I initially thought, but with stream_length2147483646/stream_length a 160kbps stream would shutdown after 26 minutes. I managed to change to -1 (and it appears to work), but I have the same problem and I'm out of ideas right now. Doesn't setting the buffer_limit help

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

2015-05-09 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: Blue was my attempt to highlight the important parameters. I agree I'm not so sure where I should display the model list - I can move it around. I'm not sure I understand the last question. Once you apply a profile to the selected player, it replaces the parameters value

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

2015-05-09 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: Hi - I've pushed an updated version. Code: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26754471/squeezecenter/dev/repo.xml it now includes a list of profile of know-players. This is feature complete, but most of the code is very

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

2015-05-08 Thread PasTim
I was just idly wondering how many people still have unresolved problems with the latest iPlayer alpha plugin (and/or iPlayerExtras). If Triode ever comes back to wave his magic wand over the plugin it would be good if we had a succinct list of remaining issues. By possibly faulty

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

2015-05-10 Thread PasTim
philippe_44 wrote: I've updated the profiles.xml file so if tou fetch them again, you shoudl have a blank line first. The profile thing is in the plugin directory, but don't worry about it , the whol idea of this is that the list of well-known players is on line and I maintain it. The last

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