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[on4aa]

Hello:

Yesterday I upgraded my DM600PVR from PLi Jade 2 to PLi Jade 3.

I am experiencing a serious problem now with Dreamnetcast internet radio.

Downloading a new stations.xml station list works.
However, when I want to try to listen to any station, PLi Jade 3 (Enigma 1) restarts.

I was not experiencing this problem when I had PLi Jade 2 installed on this box.

Any suggestions/workarounds?....Or should I revert back to PLi Jade 2?

Thanks.

[dAF2000]

It's a known problem: http://openpli.pli-i...s.org/ticket/41

[on4aa]

I have a DM600PVR and since flashing PLi Jade3 Enigma 1, DreamNetCast1.0.0 broke and crashes my box. Everything else works fine. Revertingback to PLi Jade 2 does not seem to resolve the problem.

Reading the German forum here, it seems that DreamNetCast will not befurther developed for PLi because the Gemini guys do not want torelease the latest source code.

In my humble opinion, this means that PLi will have to look into analternative in order to retain its user base and remain credible, sincethe Shoutcast internetradio functionality for the Dreambox is animportant and much-liked feature for many Dreambox users.

As a fairly new Linux user, I do not know how easy or difficult itmight be to package command-line programs of the Debian Linuxdistribution for PLi Enigma 1 and 2. From below snippets I gatheredthat the command line jukebox tool "plait" combined with the commandline player "mpg321" and a new menu panel might just do the job.Obviously, the sources of all of these command line tools are freelyavailable on the internet.

Who takes up the challenge of packaging this for PLi Enigma 1 and 2 ???

In name of all PLi/Shoutcast addicts thank you in advance!


---mpg123---

From: http://www.los-gatos.../shoutcast.html

Listening to SHOUTcast Streams with mpg123 under Linux

It seems like it should be easy to do things with Linux, since a verymotivated and competent group of people create, maintain and extend it,but sometimes it is just not obvious how to use Linux to attain aspecific goal.

For example: Many years ago I wrote a script (Bourne shell script) toplay MP3's - and Radio Station streams. I had discovered trplayer - aprogram intended to enable blind computer users to access Real Mediacontent - and I used it for years to play music from my favorite radiostations with the script.

Gradually, however, the stations began to "disappear." They were notreally gone, they had switched streaming protocols! Many of thenswitched to SHOUTcast and trplayer is not able to play that protocol.So I went without.

Finally, in September of 2006, I had had enough. I spent a few hours onGoogle searching for the magic combination of keywords to discover howSHOUTcast streams could be played from the command line in Linux. Andfinally, in a single forum post, I found the answer: mpg123

mpg123 is a relatively simple program that has many, many audiocapabilities. It specifically has the one I wanted: I can playSHOUTcast steams from the command line now, and I am able to hearonline music from around the world. Fantastic! And don't think mpg123is an exotic program that has been recently introduced. It was on mySuSE 7.2 system (SuSE is now up to version 10.1) and it worked. I justhad no idea that it would - until I read that one magic post.

Here are some sample command lines I am using to listen through a modem:

mpg123 -C -b 4096 http://scfire-ntc0l-...:80/stream/1020
mpg123 -C -b 4096 -@ "http://www.shoutcast...e=filename.pls"
mpg123 -C -b 4096 http://212.23.5.99:8004

And where did I get the names of the streams? In a web browser I simply"right clicked" on the "Tune In" icon in the SHOUTcast database, andcopied the location. If the location is a "*.pls" file, it's aplaylist, and the "-@" syntax seen above is required.

Good luck! Happy listening!


---mpg123---

Mpg123 is a fast and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It supports
MPEG 1.0/2.0 layers 1, 2 and 3 (those famous "mp3" files).

For full CD quality playback (44 kHz, 16 bit, stereo) a Pentium,
SPARCstation10, DEC Alpha or similar CPU is required. Mono and/or reduced
quality playback (22 kHz or 11 kHz) is even possible on 486 CPUs.

This package contains output plugins for several audio systems, including
OSS/Lite, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) on Linux systems,
the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound), the Network Audio System (NAS),
and others.


---mpg321---

mpg123 clone that doesn't use floating point

mpg321 is a clone of the popular mpg123 command-line mp3 player. It should
function as a drop-in replacement for mpg123 in many cases. While some of
the functionality of mpg123 is not yet implemented, mpg321 should function
properly in most cases for most people, such as for frontends such as
gqmpeg.

mpg321 is based on the mad MPEG audio decoding library. It therefore is
highly accurate, and also uses only fixed-point calculation, making it
more efficient on machines without a floating-point unit. It is not as
fast as mpg123 on systems which have a floating point unit.


---plait---

From: http://stephenjungel...projects/plait/

Plait (pronounced "play") is a command-line jukebox and music playerfront end. It understands brief, easy to type queries that pick asingle song, mix queries that combine works from multiple artists,stream queries that find Shoutcast radio streams, and everything inbetween. A variety of filters are available to pick just the music youwant to hear. In order to actually play the music it finds, Plaitautomatically hands off a play list to one of the supported musicplayers (or you can use it manually with any player that supports .m3uplaylists). The end result is that you can type commands like

plait "miles davis" not "in a silent way"
plait --mix mingus monk metheny --tracks 20 --stripe
plait --stream salsa
plait --mixfile punk --interactive

and Plait will seek out cuts from your library, or radio streams, andplay them in your music player. Plait uses UNIX as a compatibilitylayer to target X Window, Windows with Cygwin, OS X, and the UNIXconsole.

Plait includes a playlist optimizer that balances the number of cutsselected from each source, reorders cuts according to one of severalpatterns, and selects cuts that are suitable for the target device youspecify. By repeating elements in the query you can weight the balancein favor of a particular artist.

Plait works with all kinds of music players, from mpg123 to Beep MediaPlayer. For those who use command-line players like mpg123, Plaitincludes a command-line front-end, Plaiter, which adds play, pause,stop and other commands, plus queuing, to mpg123 and similar programs.Plait plus mpg123 is a complete music solution for command-line junkies.

Plait can generate complete web sites containing embedded MP3playlists, complete with album art, using the XSPF Web Music Player (http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net).

[CescoAiel]

No, that is not what it means... That *may* be a consequence of it though! /images/smiley/pfft.gif

What it *does* mean is that the Gemini folk are in breach of the GPL and are being childish about not sharing their changes, because - God forbid - someone else might use them in their images too! /images/smiley/shock.gif
(But they've been doing that for a while now, so no surprise there!)

[dAF2000]

Reading the German forum here, it seems that DreamNetCast will not befurther developed for PLi because the Gemini guys do not want torelease the latest source code.

Do you have an URL? We do have the DreamNetCast source code, but it's a very old one. So, all I can do for now is to fix the old DreamNetCast and see if I can get the new source code.

[youn]

Is there any update on this issue?

[dAF2000]

Is there any update on this issue?

Do you use OpenPLi or Jade3? I hope I can fix it for OpenPLi.

[Wolfram]

I recently updated to OpenPLi from Helenite Final and noticed the same.
The nice thing with Dreamnetcast is the simple interface and that you can continue to watch TV while listening.
If you use Internet Radio PPanel as suggested by some, you can't.

I found something called dreamCAST. It's a Dreamnetcast/Streamripper clone, and it works with OpenPLi.
But, same thing there. You can't watch tv in the background, more complicated interface than Dreamnetcast 1.0, and no source code included.
I think it's sad that you have to downgrade to old firmware just to have Dreamnetcast working.

[robertut]

Confirming that the latest OpenPLI is restarted when pressing play in DreamNetCast.

[hemertje]

try again tomorrow
we updated the plugins to todays stand...

[dAF2000]

try again tomorrow
we updated the plugins to todays stand...

Not for the DM600

[georgep]

> try again tomorrow

It still doesn't work for me /images/smiley/sad.gif

[georgep]

Just posting this in case it's of interest to anyone...

As I haven't been able to get any of the available internet radio plugins to work, I decided to have a look at putting something quickly into a PPanel, and I now have a list of stations that I can select and which work fine.

The presentation isn't that great, and (for example) once you've tuned into one station and exited the PPanel you then have to switch to a TV channel to be able to get back into the PPanel menu, but for now (until I get some time to write something a bit better!) it's good enough for me.

Below is the content of my '/etc/ppanels/internet_radio.xml' ...

George

<directory name="Internet radio streams">
<media name="Slow Radio"
target="http://217.20.112.139:14020"
stream="true"
helptext="Slow Radio"/>
<media name="The Breeze"
target="http://204.45.13.106:8027"
stream="true"
helptext="Easy listening"/>
<media name="SKY.FM Love Music"
target="http://88.191.102.29:6834"
stream="true"
helptext="Easy listening and Romantic hits"/>
<media name="SmoothJazz.com"
target="http://scfire-dtc-aa06.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1005"
stream="true"
helptext="SMOOTHJAZZ.COM - Live from Monterey Bay"/>
<media name="SmoothLounge.com"
target="http://67.213.217.213:80"
stream="true"
helptext="SmoothLounge.com - Music to Move You"/>
<media name="BBC World Service"
target="http://mp32.bbc.streamuk.com"
stream="true"
helptext="BBC World Service Radio"/>
</directory>