[mythtv-users] MythSqueezeBox Sound Issue

[George Galt]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> First, what distribution are you using?  Do you have the latest
>>> updates?  Second, make sure you have the most recent RPM from
>>> Sourceforge as there were a few changes that got around some issues
>>> that might be causing the crash from a terminal window.
>>>
>>> I still think that it may be an issue of the volume setting on the
>>> server.  Was their any change on the screen?  The display should have
>>> changed to show the current volume.  Make sure it is all the way up.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, if you go through the SqueezeCenter web interface, make
>>> sure that volume is set on full there (I've attached a screen capture
>>> from my computer, and you can see from the highlighted area on mine
>>> that the volume is almost all the way down, yours should be up).
>>>
>>> After that, I'm a littlme at a loss.  I've never heard of this plugin
>>> putting out no noise where the rest of Myth works.  Let me know what
>>> the results are and if it still doesn't work, I'll see if I can figure
>>> something else out.
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.2 and I updated all the packages a couple of days
> ago and installed the latest version of mythsqueezebox -
> mythsqueezebox-0.5-21.fc10.rpm. I've set the volume on the Squeeze
> server to full for this player. The Mythsqueezebox plug-in still isn't
> outputting any sound.
>
> But I think there's something more fundamentally wrong. When I try to
> play a song it comes up in the now playing list but the time remaining
> etc doesn't count down - it just hangs there. If I play the song by
> choosing the mythsqueezebox player from the Squeeze server web
> interface the track seems to play for a few seconds on the server's
> web interface but then stops and reverts back to the beginning and
> starts up again - and all the while the time remaining on the Now
> Playing screen of mythsqeezebox doesn't change and there's no sound.
>
> I checked that I have port 9090 open for TCP & UDP. I have a Windows
> PC which has a squeezebox client running on it and that works fine so
> I'm pretty sure the Squeeze server is OK. I think the plugin just
> doesn't want to play the tracks.
>
> Does anyone have this working on CentOS 5?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
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Phill:

You've downloaded the RPM for F10 (Fedora 10), not CentOS 5.  You will
need to build from source (or better yet, the source RPM), since I
don't think there is a CentOS build on the website.  This will raise a
few issues -- not the least of which is that you will probably have
some dependencies you will need to resolve and you will have to edit
your menu files for MythTV if you don't use the source RPM.

Alternatively, I'll see if I can find a CentOS box on which to build
you an RPM.  Are you on a x86_64 or i386 architecture?

One other thing is that there is a bug in the display that will keep
it from updating sometimes.  Hit the "space" bar (which corresponds to
the "now playing" key on the Slim Device remote) on your keyboard and
that should get it to update.

George