mpd player within Asus WL-500gP

[bzhou]

http://www.musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1918

[thejew]

@bzhou

hmmm still not working.
With 0.13 it uses like 8 % Cpu power in the beginning and then its goin down 1 - 2 %.
When using 0.14 it uses 100 % and I hear once a while just a zap sound. Weird becouse with 128 kbps files its ok just my old audio-books which are at 64 kbps wont work any more .
Since we use the oss output I cant set "auto_resample" option in the mpd.conf which is suggested in the link you provided...
Still puzzling with it.

@ all
I atached some binaries that I found on the MPD website and compiled them to work with oleg. They allow you to save & restore states, and sync with other MPD servers.
Just drop them in "/opt/bin" to use them.

[blubberblah666]

hmmm, after upgrading mpd dies with following message:

mpd: can't load library 'libgthread-2.0.so.0'

any ideas?
ok, fixed the problem myself. installing glib also installed libgthread-2.0.so.0...
and finally: shout support seems to be compiled in!!!!

Supported outputs:
shout null fifo ao oss

i've been waiting for this a loooong time ;-)

hello again, it seems i'm having no luck to get streaming functional. my current setup includes mpd running on the asus and icecast running on a windows box.
for playing back the stream i use winamp on the windows box as well.
when i now play a track with mpd and try to listen with winamp mpd grabs a lot of ressources (cpu and mem) and noting is to hear. I've configured mpd as follows:

audio_output {
        type                    "shout"
        name                    "Radio"
        host                    "192.168.1.214"
        port                    "8000"
        mount                   "/mpd.mp3"
        password                "hackme"
        quality                 "1.0"
        format                  "44100:16:1"
        encoding                "mp3"
}

note that i've set encoding to mp3. using ogg resulted in the following message when starting mpd:

shout: couldn't find shout encoder plugin "ogg"
Aborted

so, mpd error log reports this:

Feb 04 19:32 : shout: error flushing lame buffers
Feb 04 19:33 : shout: Lost shout connection to 192.168.1.214:8000: Socket error
Feb 04 19:33 : shout: Lost shout connection to 192.168.1.214:8000: Socket error
Feb 04 19:33 : shout: Lost shout connection to 192.168.1.214:8000: Socket error
Feb 04 19:33 : shout: Lost shout connection to 192.168.1.214:8000: Socket error
Feb 04 19:33 : shout: Lost shout connection to 192.168.1.214:8000: Socket error
Feb 04 19:34 : shout: error flushing lame buffers

icecast logs the following:

[2009-02-04  19:32:56] WARN stats/stats.c seen non-UTF8 data, probably incorrect metadata (stream_start, Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:32:56 Westeuropäische Normalzeit)
[2009-02-04  19:32:56] INFO source/source.c listener count on /mpd.mp3 now 0
[2009-02-04  19:33:07] WARN source/source.c Disconnecting source due to socket timeout
[2009-02-04  19:33:07] INFO source/source.c Source "/mpd.mp3" exiting
[2009-02-04  19:33:18] INFO connection/connection.c Source logging in at mountpoint "/mpd.mp3"
[2009-02-04  19:33:18] WARN stats/stats.c seen non-UTF8 data, probably incorrect metadata (stream_start, Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:33:18 Westeuropäische Normalzeit)
[2009-02-04  19:33:18] INFO source/source.c listener count on /mpd.mp3 now 0
[2009-02-04  19:33:29] WARN source/source.c Disconnecting source due to socket timeout
[2009-02-04  19:33:29] INFO source/source.c Source "/mpd.mp3" exiting
[2009-02-04  19:33:44] INFO connection/connection.c Source logging in at mountpoint "/mpd.mp3"
[2009-02-04  19:33:44] WARN stats/stats.c seen non-UTF8 data, probably incorrect metadata (stream_start, Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:33:44 Westeuropäische Normalzeit)
[2009-02-04  19:33:45] INFO source/source.c listener count on /mpd.mp3 now 0

it seems that mpd connects somehow to icecast according to the logs...
maybe someone can help me out.
any help appreciated,
regards, holger

[thejew]

maybe its just using to much CPU for transcoding? Because you set the quality to one it needs to recompress all audio on the fly, which is to much for our little mips.
thats what it did when i tried to use ogg in the past.

I still have my issue with 64 kbit files, this applys to internet streams as well. I wonder why no one realy cares. Couse this version is ununsable for me

[blubberblah666]

ok, good point. i'll give it a try tomorrow evening. thnx for the tip!
mhh, same behaviour. tried with quality set to 5.0 and 10.0.
additionally tried with bitrate set to 64, 128, 256.
maybe shout output it simply doesn't work?!
cheers,
holger

[pitsch]

thanks all! in the meantime i also had mixed experiences.
yes, mpd 0.14.3 still is still a bit hungry on resources.

  
  297 admin    S       5436   296 23.0 18.0 mpd
  380 admin    R         436   336  3.8  1.4 top
  298 admin    S       5436   296  0.0 18.0 mpd
  304 admin    R       5436   296  0.0 18.0 mpd
  295 admin    S       5436      1  0.0 18.0 mpd
  296 admin    S       5436   295  0.0 18.0 mpd

wanted to downgrade mpd to 0.13 ...
where to find a mipsel binary to download?
could anybody post the last "light" version here?

[thejew]

@pitsch
I atached MPD 0.13.2-1 (as IPKG), I am quite sure its the last 0.13 release.
This is the best working MPD for me at the moment.

Will soon post some pictures of my new Crystalfontz display showing MPD informations