svn1659 rebuffering flac

@polson wrote:

Hi,

Just tried 1659, but its constantly rebubuffering when playing FLAC files on my M1001. Same as :http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=6503&highlight=rebuffering

Installed on WindowsXP. Log files tells me that the connection was lost to my Soundbridge.

So I went back to 1586. 8)
The only problem I have now is this one:

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=6164

I don’t remember that I had this before, so it looks like someting is changed since reinstalling.

Huub

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Can I get -d9 logfiles on a scan for the filename thing? [email protected].

Thanks.

@polson wrote:

Ron,

This is in the file:

2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Found E:MusicManu ChaoLa Radiolina/17 – Manu Chao – Y Ahora Qué.flac
2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Executing: select * from songs where path=’E:MusicManu ChaoLa Radiolina17 – Manu Chao – Y Ahora Qué.flac’ and idx=0
2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Found music file: 17 – Manu Chao – Y Ahora Qué.flac
2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Codec type: flac
2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Cannot read FLAC metadata from E:MusicManu ChaoLa Radiolina17 – Manu Chao – Y Ahora Qué.flac
2007-09-12 15:45:42 (c362b94e): Skipping E:MusicManu ChaoLa Radiolina17 – Manu Chao – Y Ahora Qué.flac – scan failed

It only seems to happen on FLAC files.

Thanks. I thought I had fixed libflac, but I guess not. :/

— Ron

@timothyc wrote:

Ron, in addition to the already reported periodic rebuffering of FLAC files, which I’m also experiencing, files that I encoded with the newer versions of flac.exe (1.20+, I think; I’m currently using 1.21) won’t play at all on Soundbridge. They do play correctly on, say, foobar2k. The Soundbridge reports “can’t play {name of file.} Older FLAC files seem to play, however. WinXP SP2, P3 1GB ram. Soundbridge M1000.

Tim

Right, that’s a “ffmpeg too old” error. I just can’t seem to get a stable version of ffmpeg, though. Wish they would release a stable. (guess *everyone* is lazy about that. heh.)

In any event, that’s on my “fix before 1.2 release” list.

Ron, I went back to 1571 (Windows XP). The rebuffering seems to be gone, but the FLAC–>WAV transcode to a Soundbridge for newer FLAC files (1.2.0 and 1.2.1 – I tried both) is not working, suggesting as you said that the problem is with the ffmpeg software.

Poking around on the Web, I saw that Josh Coulson recently submitted a patch to update ffmpeg for some FLAC changes. In playing around with different “solutions” I learned (having tried) that we users can’t just overwrite your versions of the ffmpeg-related dlls with the newer ones and have a go. (All transcoding stops.)

I also experimented with overwriting your libFLAC with the newest one. In this case, Firefly still transcodes the older FLAC formats, but not the newer.

Freshest libflac.dll is 1.2.1. Binary (in ‘flac-1.2.1-devel-win.zip’) and source are at the usual FLAC sourceforge page.

The latest compiled versions of the ffmpeg files I could find were dated Sept 11, but it seems unlikely these contain the latest FLAC patches.

RE: “First I have to get sqlite3 working again”: Would contributing a bag of French Roast be helpful? : – )