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8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

I am running pupradio in lupu 520 first of all.
I selected gnome-mplayer as my player.
When I select pup telly tab and then select one of the bookmarked entries and select play, the selection does not play and the terminal shows an error of "-fs" not supported check ghome-mplayer -h for help.

When I select mplayer and try the same stream, it plays full screen, but complains about the cache not filling.

I can live with switching back and forth between players, but thought you might want to know.

Also, I do not know how to check if the cache is enabled and how big it is using mplayer.

I should mention that the Presets seem to work ok though with either player although when mplayer is selected, the cache still fails to fill.

I am back with more!

When I type in "gnome-mplayer [tv url] in a terminal, the cache fills and works.

When I do the same using mplayer in a terminal, the cache fails to fill.

Found this tidbit doing a web search:
For jerky video
mplayer -cache 8912 -cache-min 4 dvd://1

This means that you will have an 8MB cache, which should be plenty for a dvd. It will also fill the cache to 4% before starting, and the buffer should build up from there.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8683 Location: qld

Thanks for report 8-bit

Indeed if you select a bookmarked item it invokes the "-fs" option which not all players understand, I'll get onto that very soon.

I'm not sure about the cache filling issues.. probably a bit beyond the scope here as many players are supported.

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mms://live1.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_live300k

chrome307.. try that one for SkyNews, let me know if it's ok. I can't get BBC here in Australia, the site puts up a warning, Rolling Eyes

Cheers

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

skynews worked fine from a terminal using mplayer with a cache.
The instructions for mplayer jerky video from a terminal are in my post as to a tidbit.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8683 Location: qld

ver 0.7 is posted

bugfix, some players don't use -fs option which was default in bookmarks, fixed thanks to 8-bit

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2996

Mick,
neither v0.7 nor v0.8 have the fix that makes pupRadio layout look nice in XOpup.
Any chance will be in v0.9 so we could update? Wink

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

@01Micko

Thanks for the link, yes it does work Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 12:21 Post subject:

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

lol @ ttuuxxx .... I agree it would have been helpful !!

Anyway it wasn't too hard, just had to find the streams which were *.asx files and then open them up in a text editor to locate the stream.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

These stations used to work with PupRadio and for some reason, they do not now.
When I select one of them and select "Play Bookmark" with "gnome-mplayer" as the player, the initial loading buffer window shows and then about another two times and then the window closes with no results.
Also, STOP does not kill the attempt to connect.
I am enclosing the tbookmark list I have and want to know if you have any better luck.
I tried running from a terminal and saw no feedback as to errors, but at one time, I did see a segmentation fault.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8683 Location: qld

v0.10
bugfix, mplayer was filling up xerrs.log, thanks to rerwin

see main post

puppyluvr · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2011, 19:13 Post subject:

That was weird......

Sorry, strange posting glitch....

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2659 Location: UK

I cant get pupradio to play any streams with vlc (a no gui version)..
not sure why, not really posting any bugs, will have to look into it..

It's strange, cos I am playing these BBC stations fine in VLC, not using pupradio, they wont work, only in terminal and VLC-GTK:

"http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/live_infent_au_nb.asx"
"http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.asx"
"http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1x.asx"
"http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4.asx"
"http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r5l.asx"
"http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/ran.asx"

pupradio doesnt output anything to the terminal, and i cant find the problem, all should be fine.

Also, on a nicer note, here's a GREAT radio site, that has loads free stuff...
I found 24 hour jazz, dance, hip hop, news, classical, rock, etc:

http://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8683 Location: qld

Hi sc0ttman

I'm posting an update right now, there is a fair bit of code change as to not suppress errors/stdout but still keep xerrs.log fairly clean. That may help you to debug.

ver 0.11 is posted

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

Mick........ should I just go ahead and install .11 into Spup1, or leave the original alone?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8683 Location: qld

Dave

It will be fine, slight improvement

BTW, mavrothal, this version tests ok 0n xopup