IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

[Pommes]

Mhh. FLAC or WAV take a lot of bandwidth, probably the tunnel can't keep up.
I have used bridged OpenVPN tunnels from time to time, everything is fine for mp3/AAC/CD-quality stuff but for hi-def or hi-quality I've seen issues.
The server side uses its upload link to send the data, with asymmetric connexions (small upload/large download bandwidths) you get a bottleneck there.

High definition playback does work via open Ports on windows though, on iPad and iPhone both OpenVPN and open ports. And the video I stream from my satellite receiver via OpenVPN to windows laptop is about 10 times higher bit rate then FLAC from LMS. So it must be some kind of issue between squeeze play and open VPN on windows which makes the bottleneck.

[epoch1970]

So it must be some kind of issue between squeeze play and open VPN on windows which makes the bottleneck.

Right. Past the 3 openvpn options I've described just above, I don't know what to do next.
I suppose the idea could be to increase buffering in the player, but I'm not sure how to do that properly with squeezelite (?).
Also take a look at your LMS settings for players, perhaps the preferences for that Win squeezelite are not set the same way as the others.

[Pommes]

Right. Past the 3 openvpn options I've described just above, I don't know what to do next.
I suppose the idea could be to increase buffering in the player, but I'm not sure how to do that properly with squeezelite (?).
Also take a look at your LMS settings for players, perhaps the preferences for that Win squeezelite are not set the same way as the others.

Don’t worry I will just use the open ports for squeezeplay. It is working fine with the open ports. But the modification of ovpn conf which you told me to do definitely increased the streaming ability via open VPN for my video from satellite receiver, so thanks again

[drmatt]

Personally I would kill the idea of streaming flac to mobile devices and just bandwidth limit the client in LMS. 320kb MP3 is undoubtedly good enough when out and about. I would guess the limitation is insufficient pre buffering, whereas internet video players would be more aware of the requirements for this.

Flac is as you say about 900kbit, maybe just over 1mbit so shouldn't really be a big issue. Note that HD video can be streamed in about 1.8mbit and still be bearable. Probably less, but still more than a flac stream.



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[Pommes]

Personally I would kill the idea of streaming flac to mobile devices and just bandwidth limit the client in LMS. 320kb MP3 is undoubtedly good enough when out and about. I would guess the limitation is insufficient pre buffering, whereas internet video players would be more aware of the requirements for this.

Flac is as you say about 900kbit, maybe just over 1mbit so shouldn't really be a big issue. Note that HD video can be streamed in about 1.8mbit and still be bearable. Probably less, but still more than a flac stream.



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For mobile use on iphone i use transcoded stream of 192kbit.
For remote use with laptop connected to highend gear or good headphones i rather use flac. its just around 800kbit.
The videos i stream from my sat reciever use a bandwith of 8-14mbit!
No issue so far, even with openvpn. as i said: only the win7 squeezeplay when used via openvpn doesnt do, but streams flac when not using openvpn

[Grumpy Bob]

I gave up on remotely accessing my LMS after I inadvertently left the ports open when the vpn no longer worked. I had some clown playing stuff on my system. Nowadays I have a backup on a wifi enabled WD Passport drive that runs its own copy of LMS. I use that to play locally to mobile devices or a Raspberry Pi.

Robert

[Pommes]

I gave up on remotely accessing my LMS after I inadvertently left the ports open when the vpn no longer worked. I had some clown playing stuff on my system. Nowadays I have a backup on a wifi enabled WD Passport drive that runs its own copy of LMS. I use that to play locally to mobile devices or a Raspberry Pi.

Robert

well, that sucks, some clown taking control of your system.
what did the clown do? was he able to delete anything or mess your LMS completely?
did you have password protection on your lms?

[mherger]

> what did the clown do?

See the very first posting in this thread.

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Michael

[epoch1970]

I backtracked on that thread (should be working instead...) and I want to say having a password protecting settings from remote accesses will be (is?) a great addition.
To those with routed VPNs complaining about the extra password, I say use a bridged network, it makes player discovery work

In passing, I don't know the state of TOTP/QR on perl, but in my opinion a time-based password is a concept end-users grasp easily. Downloading an app and flashing a QR code is somehow an easier proposition than choosing and remembering yet another password, hard to guess please.
It would be probably better to have a short, volatile 6-digit password protect the server rather than the usual "passw0rd" or "lms1234"...
There are plenty of free TOTP clients for mobile, desktop or the command line.