AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

**Jules Taplin** · 2005-01-12, 07:53

AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

Right. Raul. First thing - mplayer is a picky beast...

Try that command line with a '-playlist' in it (a .rpm file is strictly
not an audio file, but a playlist for the real one).

So... try:

C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread>mplayer -playlist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm

See if that gets you anywhere.

-- Jules

Raul da Silva wrote:

>As Bill posted... It's almost there. The AlienBBC plugin seems to load
>properly and the Alien menu section in SlimServer 5.4.1 lists properly.
>
>I then restart with command line.
>
>Command line: slim --d_parse --d_source ... I get a normal SS parse
>listing.
>
>
>I then try to play a BBC stream (BBC 1 Live in this case) via the remote; I
>get the following dump:
>
>================================================= ===========
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5860 Backtrace:
>
> frame 0: Slim::Player::Source:

laymode (/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Command.pm
>line 363)
> frame 1: Slim::Control::Command::execute (C:/Program
>Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/Alien/Plugin.pm line 383)
> frame 2: Plugins::Alien::Plugin::setup_player (C:/Program
>Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/Alien/Plugin.pm line 296)
> frame 3: Plugins::Alien::Plugin::__ANON__ (/PerlApp/Slim/Hardware/IR.pm
>line 546)
> frame 4: Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton
>(/PerlApp/Slim/Control/Command.pm line 209)
> frame 5: Slim::Control::Command::execute (/PerlApp/Slim/Hardware/IR.pm
>line 570)
> frame 6: Slim::Hardware::IR:

rocessCode (/PerlApp/Slim/Hardware/IR.pm
>line 429)
> frame 7: Slim::Hardware::IR::releaseCode (/PerlApp/Slim/Hardware/IR.pm
>line 327)
> frame 8: Slim::Hardware::IR::checkRelease (/PerlApp/Slim/Utils/Timers.pm
>line 52)
> frame 9: Slim::Utils::Timers::checkTimers (slimserver.pl line 428)
> frame 10: main::idle (slimserver.pl line 398)
> frame 11: main::main (slimserver.pl line 61)
> frame 12: PerlSvc::Interactive (perlsvc line 1203)
> frame 13: PerlSvc::_interactive (slimserver.pl line 0)
> frame 14: (eval) (slimserver.pl line 0)
>
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5881 66:f2:bd:5e:31:c3: Switching to mode stop from stop
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5883 Already in playmode stop : ignoring mode change
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5897 Trying to open protocol stream for
>http://www.bbc.co.uk
>/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5900 Looking for handler for protocol http
>2005-01-11 18:58:15.5901 Found handler for protocol http
>================================================= ============
>
>The Squeezebox display shows, "Connecting...", then it just goes back to
>"Now Playing - Nothing"
>
>I thought this may be a problem with mplayer, so I tried the BBC1 stream
>directly to see if mplayer is working.
>
>Mplayer reports:
>
>================================================= ===========
>C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread>mplayer
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm
>MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
>Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
>Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
>To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
>--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
>
>Playing http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm.
>Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
>Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.240.110]:80 ...
>Cache size set to 320 KBytes
>Connected to server: www.bbc.co.uk
>Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
>
>Exiting... (End of file)
>================================================= ===========
>
>Hmm... mplayer just opens the stream and exits... Nothing.
>
>I then tried playing a local Real .ram file and mplayer plays it fine.
>
>
>Very strange. Any ideas?
>
>
>-raul
>
>

**Bill Burns** · 2005-01-12, 17:57

AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

Jules Taplin wrote:

> So... try:
>
> C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread>mplayer
> -playlist
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm
>
> See if that gets you anywhere.

Output from this command is below, confirming the missing codecs issue
on WinXP.

--
Bill Burns
Long Island NY USA
mailto:billb (AT) ftldesign (DOT) com

C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread>mplayer
-playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6,
Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.

Resolving www.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server www.bbc.co.uk[212.58.240.110]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: www.bbc.co.uk
c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a font description, ignoring.
Cannot load font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
Playing
rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra.
Resolving rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk for AF_INET...
Connecting to server rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk[212.58.240.100]:554 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes) REAL file format detected.
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 44100
Block align: 640
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 26
Unknown extra header dump: [80] [0] [10] [0] [17] [0] [80] [2] [10] [0]
[1] [0]
[0] [3] [8] [0] [0] [25] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [2] [0] [4]
===========================
demux_real: invalid chunksize! (0)
Clip info:
name: BBC Radio 1
author: BBC
copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation 2004
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening win32 dll 'cook.so.6.0'
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so.6.0.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed

ADecoder init failed

Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening win32 dll 'cook3260.dll'
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook3260.dll.
Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed

ADecoder init failed

Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder
opening win32 dll 'cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook'
Error loading dll
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec
cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook.

Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS!
ADecoder preinit failed

ADecoder init failed

Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6B6F6F63.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
================================================== ========================
Audio: no sound
Video: no video

Exiting... (End of file)

**Steve Bernard, Jr** · 2005-01-12, 18:24

AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:57:11 -0500, Bill Burns <billb (AT) ftldesign (DOT) com> wrote:
> Jules Taplin wrote:
>
> > So... try:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread>mplayer
> > -playlist
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.rpm
> >
> > See if that gets you anywhere.
>
> Output from this command is below, confirming the missing codecs issue
> on WinXP.
>

Well, like I posted last night, I grabbed the proper codecs and put
them in a Codecs directory where mplayer knew about them. This
allowed me to play Real files through the command line. In fact, I
just tried that specific BBC stream and it played fine...from the
command line. None of this has helped my Squeezebox or Softsqueeze to
play tracks through AlienBBC. I have no hard evidence that the
behavior it's exhibiting now (Connecting... for several seconds and
then stopping) is a result of missing codecs or some completely
unrelated issue.

The page to download the beta has some tips, and my debugging output
looks pretty much like what Bill Burns posted yesterday. One question
on the site is: " Does the command window/shell say that it has parsed
an entry in the rstp playlist?" and I don't see anything that looks
like it's saying that. I certainly see nothing with --d_source that
indicates mplayer.exe was launched, so the problem may lie further
upstream than missing codecs.

Not that missing the proper codecs wouldn't also be a problem, of course.

--Steve

P.S. The Real codecs I am using were obtained by downloading Real
Alternative from
http://www.free-codecs.com/Real_Alte...e_download.htm , installing
just Real Alternative (not Media Player Classic), and then copying the
Codecs folder in the Real Alternative program directory to the
directory where mplayer is. This caused it to stop complaining about
missing Real codecs.

**Bill Burns** · 2005-01-12, 20:02

AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

Steve Bernard, Jr wrote:

> P.S. The Real codecs I am using were obtained by downloading Real
> Alternative from
> http://www.free-codecs.com/Real_Alte...e_download.htm , installing
> just Real Alternative (not Media Player Classic), and then copying the
> Codecs folder in the Real Alternative program directory to the
> directory where mplayer is. This caused it to stop complaining about
> missing Real codecs.

Thanks for that! I installed the codecs and now I can play the BBC
streams using mplayer from the command line.

Attempting to play BBC through the SB still gives "Connecting ..." for a
few seconds, no sound.

--
Bill Burns
Long Island NY USA
mailto:billb (AT) ftldesign (DOT) com

AlienBBC Beta Release Available - includes support forWindows SlimServer users

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