MMM-MplayerRadio

omoioli

Your module looks very great, smith notification and profil change ! Can you re-upload the pictures to see it ?

wishmaster270

@omoioli
Hi, great if you like it.
What exactly do you mean. Currently there are a lot of problems with the forum. Are the screenshots not visible or do you like to have an different one?

omoioli

@wishmaster270 yes, screenshoots were not visible, but now, it’s good … may be a bug…

electros

@wishmaster270 Wow this looks great, I like it. But can i have a request please?
Can you try to make a version with xmms2 player ?. I want to use this to listening aacp or mp3 radio stream and mplayer is so slowly I push button to start and he start playing radio after nearly one minute. And if you can implement a volume graph and volume control will be great.
Thank you.

wishmaster270

Hi,

normally mplayer is very fast. Can you try to reduce the caching with the “mplayerCache” option either for one station or globally for all. The default value is 512 and may be a little high.

There already exists an module to control the volume MMM-Volume which i use in my setup.

electros

@wishmaster270 ok i will try to modify caching to see what happend.
And about the volume yes i know that module but i have a touchscreen and can be better if i have a buttons for volume in same module from where i start listening.

wishmaster270

@electros I will check if I can include two control buttons to increase/decrease the volume by sending notifications to MMM-Volume.

electros

@wishmaster270 Thank you, and about the caching nothing change with that. here is one of the link http://www.surfmusik.de/m3u/magicfm,14949.m3u can you try please maybe i doing something wrong

wishmaster270

I tried this link on the command line:
mplayer -cache 256 -playlist http://www.surfmusik.de/m3u/magicfm,14949.m3u

Mplayer complains that the station is to slow. It doesn’t even start playing in my case.
It looks like mplayer has some known problems with aac.

But you are right. If i use xmms2 it works.
The problem is, that xmms2 uses a totally different interface.

But also some good news. I released a new version 0.0.2 which adds two volume buttons.

wishmaster270

Found a hack:
You can create an own m3u file which contains this url “http://stream.laut.fm/magicfm”. This one is working fine with mplayer

                                       {
						title: "Test",
						url: "/home/pi/test.m3u",
					}

electros

@wishmaster270 thank you for new release and maybe you think in the future to release a version with xmms2. Thanks

electros

@wishmaster270 ok i will try. Thanks

electros

@wishmaster270 Sorry because I still insist but now the new release is not stable he start flickering, but just this module everything else works fine. Looks like he refreshed every 5 seconds. And sometimes when he flicker he stop playing.

wishmaster270

@electros
Sorry for that.
I will check it tomorrow. It is curious because I did not change anything in the backend.

electros

@wishmaster270 ok thanks

wishmaster270

@electros I just realised that the flickering means that the module tries to switch to the sender but the mplayer process runs into an error.
Does it work if you run the command directly in the shell?

electros

@wishmaster270 sorry but i don’t know about what command you talk. To play that test file in mplayer from the shell?

wishmaster270

@electros
mplayer -cache 256 -playlist PLAYLISTFILE

I will try to reduce the flickering but I don’t think this will stop the problem of your stations not being played.
I spent the last hour to read more about Xmms2. I don’t think that I can implement an easy way to switch between the two players. One of the main problems is that Xmms2 does not provide the current stream info of the station.

electros

@wishmaster270 yes i know that about xmms2 but my stations don’t provide that info anyway.
Thanks for your time, if is not pssible that it. Thank you

wishmaster270

Hi,

gave it a new try today. But i can`t get xmms2 to run on my pi. Looks like the xmms alsa plugin has some problems with my HifiBerry.
Also tried omxplayer but it has problems with internet streams.