Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Chromecast Bridge plugin has disappeared and LMS wants to restart continuously
bpa wrote: > Similar solution was used by AlienBBC when it used Mplayer - AlienBBC > plugin downloaded mplayer rather than LMS and so no timeout issue.. Yes, indeed someone pointed me to AlienBBC for the solution and I've stealed it from there. Mo merit to me, but to the author of AienBBC plugin. Errors are mine. SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105306 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] C-3PO plugin, a trnscoding helper.
marcoc1712 wrote: > You are welcome, > > About performance, Crackles and pops - if your DAC is supporting the > sent format and you restarted it after changes - are symptom that you > are asking too much from your system, probably Atom is not adeguate for > server purpose, when upsampling. Firts things to try is increase the > buffer size in Squeezelite (with 192/24 wav a minimal setting is -b > 16384:16384, but if you have enough memory, you could even double them > or more) and use greater period size in alsa (lower period size = > greater CPU usage). > > I use an old AMD Dual core 6000+ 3GHz with 4 GB Ram, Ubuntu 15.04 and I > could esaily upsample form 44100 to 384Khz and decode form any codec to > WAV or AIFF, SOX is sometime using 50% of CPU, but never had a crash of > LMS. > > Realy strange Squeezelite crash, if launched without -u, it should use > very, very low cpu (< 1%) and less than 50 Mb (depending on buffer > size). A lot of people use it on a Futro S450, that's a sempron Thin > Client, with 1 GB RAM with great results, I have an AlixBoard and an > Atom miniPc and never had a problems, works very well even on tiny ARM > devices. > > Could you please post the squeezelite-R2 command line and maybe its > log? > > Thanks a lot. I'm not going to try any more tests now, since I don't think I can get this working well enough for all my devices at the same time. The command line for squeezelite when using C-3PO is something like: /home/me/bin/squeezelite-x86-64 -o hw:CARD=DAC,DEV=0 -a 60 -f /var/log/squeezeboxserver/squeezelite.log -m 00:00:00:00:00:98 -n VBslite -s localhost:3483 -r 192000-192000 When running without C-3PO I currently upsample flacs to squeezelite at 24/192000 and that's sufficient for my needs - I add -u vLX to get this. I'm afraid I have no log - Sorry. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (to 405/2 amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Alternatively Minimserver & Upplay to same & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to PC speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 15.10 laptop firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. Also a Touch with EDO, plus spare, unused. PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105309 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Where do the menus come from, or where is one gone?
Hello I'm quite new with LMS.:confused: Since a few day, I miss a sub menu within the menu structure: In the *Main Menu* is a sub menu called *Radio*, and there is a sub menü called *World*, where I had a sub menu like *National Broadcast Stations* (or similar) and 2 or 3 futher menus. Now, since a few days, I miss this menus, but I see a menu called *Locations*, and below all continents. I wonder where do this menus "come from" (are the locally saved?) and why does such a sub menu change unexpectedly? And, can I edit this whole menu structure? Regards, Roman RK_aus_S's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105329 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] C-3PO plugin, a trnscoding helper.
PasTim wrote: > Hi Marco, > > I'm really glad you found that bug. It's now possible for me to test > individual settings easily and reliably. Previously I was not sure what > settings were being used, so got very confused. > > For the 'Enable transcoding' setting, it would have helped me if the > information had said something like 'Enable transcoding from these > codecs to the output format selected below', and for 'Enable resampling' > something like 'Enable resampling from these codecs' would be clearer. > > And to testing, it seems my system (Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ > 1.80GHz, 4 cores) isn't powerful enough to upsample from 16/44100 to > best WAV using squeezelite-R2 and a Meridian Explorer USB DAC which can > play 24/192000. I get 100% cpu from sox and squeezeboxserver and > crackles and pops. Upsampling to flac I got squeezelite-R2 to crash. > > > For my other UPnP players using squeeeze2upnp, upsampling to flac > doesn't work well for me. squeeze2upnp has some slightly complex logic > about how to pause and/or reposition tracks and this doesn't seem to > work when C-3PO is in the loop. > > To conclude it's great that one can now test in a logical fashion and > try each option for each player to see what effect it has. But C-3PO is > not for my system as it is now. > > Thanks for bearing with my slow understanding and queries. I do > appreciate it. You are welcome, About performance, Crackles and pops - if format is supported form your DAC and you restarted it after changes - are symptom that you are asking too much from your system, probably Atom is not adeguate for server purpose, if upsampling. Firts things to try is increase the buffer size in Squeezelite (with 192/24 wav a minimal setting is -b 16384:16384, but if you have enough memory, you could even double them or more) and use greater period size in alsa (lower period size = greater CPU usage). I use an old AMD Dual core 6000+ 3GHz with 4 GB Ram, Ubuntu 15.04 and I could esaily upsample form 44100 to 384Khz and decode form any codec to WAV or AIFF, SOX is sometime using 50% of CPU, but never had a crash of LMS. Realy strange Squeezelite crash, if launched without -u, it should use very, very low cpu (< 1%) and less than 50 Mb (depending on buffer size). A lot of people use it on a Futro S450, that's a sempron Thin Client, with 1 GB RAM with great results, I have an AlixBoard and an Atom miniPc and never had a problem, works very well even on tiny ARM devices. Coul dyou please post the squeezelite-R2 command line and maybe its log? Thanks a lot. SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105309 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] C-3PO plugin, a trnscoding helper.
Hi Marco, I'm really glad you found that bug. It's now possible for me to test individual settings easily and reliably. Previously I was not sure what settings were being used, so got very confused. For the 'Enable transcoding' setting, it would have helped me if the information had said something like 'Enable transcoding from these codecs to the output format selected below', and for 'Enable resampling' something like 'Enable resampling from these codecs' would be clearer. And to testing, it seems my system (Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz, 4 cores) isn't powerful enough to upsample from 16/44100 to best WAV using squeezelite-R2 and a Meridian Explorer USB DAC which can play 24/192000. I get 100% cpu from sox and squeezeboxserver and crackles and pops. Upsampling to flac I got squeezelite-R2 to crash. For my other UPnP players using squeeeze2upnp, upsampling to flac doesn't work well for me. squeeze2upnp has some slightly complex logic about how to pause and/or reposition tracks and this doesn't seem to work when C-3PO is in the loop. To conclude it's great that one can now test in a logical fashion and try each option for each player to see what effect it has. But C-3PO is not for my system as it is now. Thanks for bearing with my slow understanding and queries. I do appreciate it. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (to 405/2 amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Alternatively Minimserver & Upplay to same & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to PC speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 15.10 laptop firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. Also a Touch with EDO, plus spare, unused. PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105309 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Chromecast Bridge plugin has disappeared and LMS wants to restart continuously
philippe_44 wrote: > oh well ... as usual, I did a fresh install, did not add any repository > and tried to install ChromeCast plugin from the built-in repository. Of > course, the download worked fully as well as the install - twice > > BUT > > There is a small chance that what I was doing, as well as the OP owner, > lead to the problem: this is a big download (8.5MB) and when you ask for > installation, LMS asks you to restart. Then, after clicking ok, I was > immediately going to another cmd line window where I was restarting the > LMS service and ended every time (10 times) with a partial download. > What I did in the 2 above tests is that I was looking at the download > progress before doing the restart. An that's very likley maybe as stupid > as that, the restart was interrupting the download - it was not visible > with my other plugins as they are smaller in size, so I did not "have > the time" to restart LMS before the download has been finished ... > > Sorry for bothering you with that, Michael I had the really same problem with the windows version of C-3PO plugin. Workaround was to make a little version of the plugin to download from plugin manager, then start the 'real' complete download by inside the installed plugin. You could look here: https://github.com/marcoc1712/C-3PO/blob/master/WindowsDownloader.pm SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105306 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
