BBC iPlayer - Squeezeplay (win) - can't open file failure

[castalla]

I'm getting 'can't open file' errors for all live stations. I checked the stream info:

File format: AAC
Bitrate: 128 kbps CBR (converted to 705 kbps FLAC)

I can't ever recall seeing this conversion before. In any event, the streams fail to play

The same stream plays on my Touch but Bitrate is a simple 128 kbps CBR

Any ideas?

[bpa]

At the start of the last BBC outage, one user reported the "can't open file " type of error.

I suggest turn on BBCiPlayer logging and LMS transcoding logging (player.source) to check if something has failed in your LMS setup

[castalla]

At the start of the last BBC outage, one user reported the "can't open file " type of error.

I suggest turn on BBCiPlayer logging and LMS transcoding logging (player.source) to check if something has failed in your LMS setup

Hints on where to enable the logging please!

[bpa]

Hints on where to enable the logging please!

WebUI Settings/Advanced/Logging.

Set plugin.bbciplayer to INFO and also player.source to INFO and then click "Apply"

Note time, Then try to play a BBC station, wait to get the error message and then clear the playlist to stop player. Copy lines from noted time into server.log to a text file, zip and attach to a post

[castalla]

WebUI Settings/Advanced/Logging.

Set plugin.bbciplayer to INFO and also player.source to INFO and then click "Apply"

Note time, Then try to play a BBC station, wait to get the error message and then clear the playlist to stop player. Copy lines from noted time into server.log to a text file, zip and attach to a post

Here's a zip:

[bpa]

I don't know what formats Squeezeplay supports natively.

From the log - it looks like Squeezeplay doesn't support AAC natively so LMS is trying to to transcode from AAC to Flac (Touch supports AAC natively so no transcode).

[14-07-30 22:05:37.2578] Slim::Player::Song::open (558) Tokenized command: "/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux/faad" -q -w -f 1 "-" | "/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux/flac" -cs --totally-silent --compression-level-0 --ignore-chunk-sizes -
[14-07-30 22:05:37.2864] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stream (1327) 00:ff:e7:73:4f:b9: stream
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3012] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_Stream (1374) Song queue is now 0
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3032] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setPlayingState (2479) new playing state BUFFERING
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3050] Slim::Player::StreamingController::_setStreamingState (2492) new streaming state STREAMING
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3305] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (374) end of file or error on socket, song pos: 0
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3321] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (379) 00:ff:e7:73:4f:b9 mark end of stream
[14-07-30 22:05:37.3335] Slim::Player::Source::_readNextChunk (387) Didn't stream any bytes for this song; mark it as failed

This show the transcode has failed trying play a strema like "rtmp://cp60686.live.edgefcs.net:1935". rtmp:// is a FlashAAC stream.

So this problem is usually either
1. the rtmp stream has a problem or iPlayer BBC plugin has problem decoding the stream.
2. problem running faad and or flac - LMS has found executables faad and flac and has tried to make it run but it ispossible they have failed.

The BBC supports formats FlashAAC , http/AAC for live and WMA. Yous system has no wma decode support so can you trying playing a BBC live stream and set preferences to exclude FlashAAC.

[castalla]

Thanks. I'll persevere.

[bpa]

If the exact same stream works OK on a Touch through the same LMS - it means the stream is OK and the Flash processing (either on LMS or in Touch) is OK and so would indicate that somehting is wrong with transcoding - a first step would be to check that the two apps /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux/faad and /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/arm-linux/flac both run from a command line with say "-?" argument.

[castalla]

Both commands return - no such file or directory. Yet, both faad and flac are listed in the directory

[bpa]

Both commands return - no such file or directory. Yet, both faad and flac are listed in the directory

try a ls -l /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin to see full details on the files such as executable, permission, owner and whether the files are real or a link.