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[dancehalld]

Hi, have an oldschool dm500 running pliJade. I want to get mpd working on this box. Any suggestions on how to go about doing this? Am open to installing any image as long as I can get MPD running. Thanks

[Erik Slagter]

I think that will be a hell of a trick to perform, on the tiny bit of flash that this box has...

[dancehalld]

Hi, installed openpli on the dm500. grabbed the mpd ipk file from this thread: http://openpli.org/f...mon-in-openpli/

Tried to install the mpd ipk file with ipkg and opkg but the programs are not found:
-sh: ipkg: not found
-sh: opkg: not found

Suggestions?

OpenPLI Build Number: OpenPLi-beta-dm500-20111126-232

Edited by dancehalld, 26 November 2011 - 18:58.

[Erik Slagter]

The dm500 doesn't use packages, they are for the dm500hd.

[dancehalld]

OK Thanks!

Since I'm not using it to hold any satellite information do you think I can get it to work? Not sure how to do that even if I could.

Was thinking to compile a firmware and mpd under the old tuxbox project's development kit. It gets hairy when I start thinking about it though.

What do you think?

[dancehalld]

Also, under PliJade, I've tried streaming via Shoutcast. The plugin I've been using to access the streams is "Dreamcast". Dreamcast works streaming from the shoutcast.com servers.

Once that was working a local Shoutcast server was setup so that I could stream from another device through shoutcast and into the dm500.

The issue is that I can't get streaming from the local shoutcast server to the DM500 to work. The server does work and I can listen to the streams with iTunes when sourced from my laptop. With regards to streaming via Dreamcast, a variety of settings in Shoutcast have been used to get streaming to work. It looks like the mountpoints for the stream don't seem to be compatible with the format accepted by Dreamcast. Any other plugin's out there that someone might be aware of?

This is what brought about the desire to try MPD.

Has anyone had any success with any of the above recently?

I've done a bunch of digging too without luck. Thanks for the support!

[dancehalld]

FYI - Got streaming working with Dreamcast and the DM500 and Shoutcast, using Winamp as the source. The issue I'm encountering now is that it has to go through the yp servers on shoutcast.com, i.e. it must be Internet connected.

The goal is to have it all local to the internal network without the need for an Internet connection. Will update this thread if it works out as designed.

Edited by dancehalld, 28 November 2011 - 01:24.

[dancehalld]

So I figured something out that will prove the DM500-S still has lots of uses for me after satellite tv:

The following was configured:
||Celeron Headless PC: [centos] + [mpd httpd streaming]|| + [one of the many mpd clients] + [DM500 as a streaming client] + [amplifier] = working

The following posts were helpful for me:
http://mpd.wikia.com...from_a_Dreambox
http://rednerd.com/2...n-ubuntu-10-04/

After setting up MPD on the Celeron CentOS PC using the HTTP streaming audio output as noted in the above posts, an M3U playlist file was created on the DM500 with the following contents:
http://192.168.0.3:8001/

where 192.168.0.3 is the IP of the Celeron, and port 8001 is defined in the audio_out line of MPD.

Once MPD is running on the Celeron Machine at 192.168.0.3 I connect to it with one of the many MPD clients (I use an iPad) and start playback. Then on the DM500 I navigate through File Mode to the playlist file and click OK. The stream starts and I have sound from the DM500 coming out of the amplifier.

This is especially perfect since just after getting it working, the actual sound card on the Celeron Headless crapped out.

The playback is smooth and clear. The only issue is having to start the stream with the m3u playlist file described above each time playback on the mpd client is restarted. Oh well, can't be pefect...yet

As a workaround for having to always start the stream I just load a few days worth of music and start that playing then mute the dreambox when I want silence.

Hope this helps other people, not especially unique but it does work well.

ttyl
DD