Just installed LMS and Softsqueeze on Linux but BBC iPlayer not working

[philipharvey44]

Hi,

I'm a new user. I've just installed LMS 7.7.2 and Softsqueeze 3.9b2 on my Linux Mint laptop. I'm in the UK.

Everything is working except the BBC iPlayer plugin, which is one of the things I was most looking forward to.

Looking at other threads, I see that others are having some fairly complex problems with BBC iPlayer too. Before I spend lots of time trying to figure out if their problems are the same as mine, I have a simple question...

Given the set-up described above, should I expect BBC iPlayer to work? I'm concerned that maybe there's an obvious problem I'm missing, e.g. a fundamental incompatibility between the BBC streams and LMS on Linux, or something like that.

Can anyone offer any advice about obvious stuff I should check?

[bpa]

Softqueeze can omly play MP3 and Flac natively so if you are playing WMA or AAC format streams you will need to make sure LMS transcoding support apps are working.

Can you play internet radio streams on Softsqueeze such as ?
MP3 format http://www.somafm.com/illstreet.pls
AAC format http://www.somafm.com/illstreet32.pls
WMA format http://www.somafm.com/wma/illstreet.asx


Are you using a 64 bit kernel ?
If so then to play AAC streams you will need to install the ia32-libs package as LMS supplied.

To play WMA stream you will need to install the PlayWMA plugin and mplayer
- but I think it would be easier to configure iPlayer plugin to use AAC.

[philipharvey44]

Thanks for the response.

I already had ia32-libs installed, as it turned out.

As expected, I was able to play the MP3 stream you supplied but not the AAC one.

I just noticed that, when I try to play the AAC stream, SoftSqueeze prints an error:

java.io.IOException: Could not find Stream Sync
at org.kc7bfi.jflac.FLACDecoder.readStreamSync(FLACDe coder.java:557)
at org.kc7bfi.jflac.FLACDecoder.readMetadata(FLACDeco der.java:212)
at org.kc7bfi.jflac.FLACDecoder.decode(FLACDecoder.ja va:303)
at org.kc7bfi.jflac.sound.spi.Flac2PcmAudioInputStrea m$1.run(Flac2PcmAudioInputStream.java:136)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)


Any advice on how to debug this would be very gratefully received.

[bpa]

Softsqueeze is just telling you that LMS is not sending a stream.

The problem is either faad or flac that are in the LMS Bin directory.

What banner text is shown when you run the LMS flac and faad with "-h" option.

[philipharvey44]

Oops, just realised that in fact I didn't have ia32-libs installed. Just installed them, and now everything is working :-)

Thanks for your help.