I have had success with SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 on a SheevaPlug, following the instructions on the page linked in the previous post.
Playback from this server on a Squeezebox 2 is fine - when using FLAC audio (natively decoded on the Squeezebox) CPU usage doesn't go above 15%. It did take a good bite out of available memory - around a 90Mb increase. Note I'm also running various other services on the same plug (IMAP mail, Apache, MySQL, php, munin, Samba, Subversion). OS-wise, I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with a 2.6.30 kernel - all from a USB hard drive. I've stuck with the native formats (FLAC, MP3) so that I don't add the overhead of transcoding. Native-only formats means limiting the Internet radio streams I can successfully play. If you're only planning to run SqueezeCenter, transcoding may be feasible. That requires extra manual setup to be done over and above the instructions posted on the Wiki - e.g. installing utilities like lame and flac, building the fixed point version of faad with the streaming support patches from Slim Devices; not something I've tried or currently plan to! I'm no Linux expert, but am a very experienced software engineer. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're comfortable with working on the Linux command line to download, configure, build and install packages. And prepared to troubleshoot... The SheevaPlugs and derivatives around at the moment seem to be either development kits or customised by other manufacturers for more specific purposes, so there are extra pitfalls to avoid compared to setting up more consumer oriented hardware. -- Magwitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magwitch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5112 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67010 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
