alienstream v3 helper testing

[waldy]

Hi,

I',m testing the compiled alienstream helper after installing the xine
library.

Currently I'm getting the following output

[root@lyn-media tmp]# /usr/local/bin/alienstream
rtsp://rx-wes-sea137.rbn.com/farm/*/radiofno/radiofno/live/radio.rm

mrl: 'rtsp://rx-wes-sea137.rbn.com/farm/*/radiofno/radiofno/live/radio.rm'
Buffering... [0%]
Buffering... [4%]
Buffering... [8%]
Buffering... [12%]
Buffering... [18%]

and no further. I've tried several other url's with similar results.
Can ayone give me a url that is known to work with this, so I know wether
the setup on my rehat 8 system is working or not?
Any other tips apreciated.

cheers

Waldy

[Peter Heslin]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:21:52PM +0100, waldy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I',m testing the compiled alienstream helper after installing the xine
> library.
>
> Currently I'm getting the following output
>
> [root@lyn-media tmp]# /usr/local/bin/alienstream
> rtsp://rx-wes-sea137.rbn.com/farm/*/radiofno/radiofno/live/radio.rm
>
> mrl: 'rtsp://rx-wes-sea137.rbn.com/farm/*/radiofno/radiofno/live/radio.rm'
> Buffering... [0%]
> Buffering... [4%]
> Buffering... [8%]
> Buffering... [12%]
> Buffering... [18%]
>
> and no further. I've tried several other url's with similar results.
> Can ayone give me a url that is known to work with this, so I know wether
> the setup on my rehat 8 system is working or not?
> Any other tips apreciated.

Your URL
(rtsp://rx-wes-sea137.rbn.com/farm/*/radiofno/radiofno/live/radio.rm)
works fine for me (cajun music at the moment, with occasional
audio dropouts, but not too bad).

It looks like maybe the output is getting blocked. Check that you
have followed the instructions about setting up the fifo. Try running
lame and the mp3 player *before* alienstream.

Peter

[Waldy]

Hi Peter,

Used the following to set the fifo up;

mkfifo tmp.wav
export XINE_WAVE_OUTPUT=tmp.wav

as per your web page instructions. Tried setting the lame command before
the helper. Still seems to stall on buffering. I let it run all day today
out of interest, came back from work & it had reached 36%. btw the stream
plays fine in real player.

regards

Waldy

[Peter Heslin]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:02:25PM +0100, Waldy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Used the following to set the fifo up;
>
> mkfifo tmp.wav
> export XINE_WAVE_OUTPUT=tmp.wav
>
> as per your web page instructions. Tried setting the lame command before
> the helper. Still seems to stall on buffering. I let it run all day today
> out of interest, came back from work & it had reached 36%. btw the stream
> plays fine in real player.

As I said, it works fine for me, so I'm not sure what's going on.
Try this: in a new shell (i.e. one without the XINE_WAVE_OUTPUT
environment variable set) run the helper without lame. In the
current directory, you should see a file called xine-out.wav, which
will rapidly grow in size. Provided that you have enough disk space,
xine should not stall. If it still stalls, I'm stumped.

Best,

Peter

[Marty]

This isn't related to my SB, it's working well and I love it, but this is
related to audio playback on my laptop. I've a toshiba P25-s509 series
laptop with windows xp pro installed. I have the most recent sound drivers
installed, yet for some reason when I play an mp3 located on the local HD, I
get random choppiness. It's not the player, for it does the same thing in
both windows media player and in winamp. Rest assured that these files all
play beautifully over the LAN via the SB, this is just local playing on my
laptop. Any suggestions on what the issue may be? Thanks in advance.

marty

[dean]

Hey Marty,

Kevin, our tech support guy, had a toshiba laptop a while ago and had a
similar problem. He never completely resolved it, but his best guess
was that his wifi card was interfering with the audio hardware. Could
this explain your problem?

-dean

On May 28, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Marty wrote:

>
>
> This isn't related to my SB, it's working well and I love it, but this
> is
> related to audio playback on my laptop. I've a toshiba P25-s509 series
> laptop with windows xp pro installed. I have the most recent sound
> drivers
> installed, yet for some reason when I play an mp3 located on the local
> HD, I
> get random choppiness. It's not the player, for it does the same
> thing in
> both windows media player and in winamp. Rest assured that these
> files all
> play beautifully over the LAN via the SB, this is just local playing
> on my
> laptop. Any suggestions on what the issue may be? Thanks in advance.
>
> marty
>

[Waldy]

Peter,

After a while looking at xine-lib & this stiky buffer thing (which I could
see using the xine-ui front end too), I decided to give up fault finding
(was giving me a headache) & re-compile the xine-lib.

This cured this problem & your helper works now on most streams I have
tried.

Thanks for your hints, I'm new to linux & the sb so its been quite a steep
learning curve.

regards

Waldy