Thanks for your help Alan - your clue put me on the right path. The
flac codec wasn't installed, and the sound configuration on the
computer was broken too.
Now I have the problem that this player cannot decode FLAC streams as
it's not powerful enough (to recap it's a PI/147MHz, 32Mb RAM), I've
unchecked the WAV-FLAC conversion on the server, which means it's just
about OK streaming BBC Radio 4. I assume will now stream WAV to all
players, and I'll have to do this for all file types. Is it possible
to do per-player settings? For this computer only it would be nice to
also use the server's power to cut all streams to 64Kbit/sec and stream
WAV only, for all the others it can do what it wants.
For reference, here's the steps taken to get the PC to a basic
functioning state with Damn Small Linux 4.2.5 standard hard disk
install:
Correct sound setup:
Code:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/softsqueeze# modprobe sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/softsqueeze# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
mpu_io=0x300
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Boot to commandline, enable DMA and remove USB:
Code:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add:
title DSL Runlevel 2
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noscsi nousb dma frugal
2 base norestore
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Generally I'm impressed with what DSL can do with the resources it's
given. The next steps are to reduce the streaming overhead as far as
possible, perhaps by trying out SqueezeSlave, although I have a feeling
this doesn't work with internet radio very well.
Any hints very welcome...
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