Good work with this old machine - remember it was once the best! The only thought I had if it is barely managing with the flac decoding, is to try and get some more ram for it, as it may well work then in flac mode. I don't think flac is too cpu demanding for decoding, although yes it is an old system.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: hellesangel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:47:06 To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems running SoftSqueeze on Damn Small Linux 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: -------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/softsqueeze# modprobe sound [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/softsqueeze# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x300 -------------------- Boot to commandline, enable DMA and remove USB: Code: -------------------- [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 -------------------- 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... -- hellesangel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hellesangel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43343 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
