MMM-MplayerRadio

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.

electros

@wishmaster270 Thank you for you still trying

electros

@wishmaster270 I installed xmms2 from " Synaptic Package Manager" and I must install all xmms2 related audio plugins before this to work. So maybe this is reason for no work.
In another way can you please show me how I can run a xxx.sh file local instead of a web link when I chose a radio station ?

wishmaster270

Hi,

my problem is that i messed up my audio configuration as i tried to configure pulseaudio to make it possible to play music either on my local HifiBerry speakers or on a bluetooth speaker.
Mplayer still works fine but i can`t get any sound from xmms2.
The other problem is that there are a lot of known problems of xmms2 but xmms2 is dead since 2017.
Thats why i tried omxplayer which is still maintained.

Currently the module supports local playlist files but not calling any other player. You can change the binary that is called but it still sets the args as mplayer will need it.

electros

@wishmaster270 Ok, I find a easy way to play a web radio with xmms2 player from a executable .sh file for that I ask you to tell me how I can run that file from your module. Now is not working my radios with mplayer.