Compiling worked on Asus WL-700gE, but transcoding fails?

[mumsoft]

Hi,

I have an Asus WL-700gE with a modified firmware from K.C.Furge. See this post if you like: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=7109

Since I have bought a Roku Soundbridge I need a nightly Firefly because the stable version of mt-daapd of march 2006 is not compatible.
Now I have been trying various builds but without success, so I decided to do it the hard way, and compile it (svn-1571). That succeeded at last, with –prefix=/opt –enable-sqlite3 –enable-oggvorbis –enable-flac
I was releived after so many weeks trial and error.
But allas, despite this post: http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=5979, transcoding ogg files does not work.

Actually, there is another problem: Firefly only sees a little part of all my songs, due to (what I think) is some weird naming of my directories, that came directly from the cddb. To eliminate this, I made a map ‘test’ and putted some ogg files in it, plus one mp3 file.
The .mp3 is streamed to my Soundbridge. But with an .ogg-file the Soundbridge complaints it cannot play it, and quickly skips to the next song. Amarok on my pc shows the same behaviour.

In the log I can see:
Executing /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh “/shares/MYV
OLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/test/08.ogg” 0 203.000 “ogg”
If I try this myself with /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh “/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/test/08.ogg” 0 203.000 “ogg” > test.wav
the file test.wav is created.

So, now some questions: I saw some posts about not working transcoding, but is it really still broken? Or is there some hope, should I do someting else that I am not aware of yet?
I also see in the web interface: Bonjour Stopped. Is that normal?

I have come so far, I hope to get over the last hurdle with some help, because I have settled on ogg as my prefered music format, and around 8000 songs are waiting…

Regards,
Marc

[rpedde]

@mumsoft wrote:

Hi,

I have an Asus WL-700gE with a modified firmware from K.C.Furge. See this post if you like: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=7109

Since I have bought a Roku Soundbridge I need a nightly Firefly because the stable version of mt-daapd of march 2006 is not compatible.
Now I have been trying various builds but without success, so I decided to do it the hard way, and compile it (svn-1571). That succeeded at last, with –prefix=/opt –enable-sqlite3 –enable-oggvorbis –enable-flac
I was releived after so many weeks trial and error.
But allas, despite this post: http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=5979, transcoding ogg files does not work.

Actually, there is another problem: Firefly only sees a little part of all my songs, due to (what I think) is some weird naming of my directories, that came directly from the cddb. To eliminate this, I made a map ‘test’ and putted some ogg files in it, plus one mp3 file.
The .mp3 is streamed to my Soundbridge. But with an .ogg-file the Soundbridge complaints it cannot play it, and quickly skips to the next song. Amarok on my pc shows the same behaviour.

In the log I can see:
Executing /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh “/shares/MYV
OLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/test/08.ogg” 0 203.000 “ogg”
If I try this myself with /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh “/shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/Music/test/08.ogg” 0 203.000 “ogg” > test.wav
the file test.wav is created.

So, now some questions: I saw some posts about not working transcoding, but is it really still broken? Or is there some hope, should I do someting else that I am not aware of yet?
I also see in the web interface: Bonjour Stopped. Is that normal?

I have come so far, I hope to get over the last hurdle with some help, because I have settled on ogg as my prefered music format, and around 8000 songs are waiting…

Regards,
Marc

Edit /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh and set the full path to the ogg and flac decoders in the top of the script file. That should do it.

— Ron

[mumsoft]

@rpedde wrote:

@mumsoft wrote:

Hi,

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I have come so far, I hope to get over the last hurdle with some help, because I have settled on ogg as my prefered music format, and around 8000 songs are waiting…

Regards,
Marc

Edit /opt/sbin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh and set the full path to the ogg and flac decoders in the top of the script file. That should do it.

— Ron

Thanks for your reply, it gave me hope. But adding the paths /opt/sbin did not help, I already had exported te right paths.
Nevertheless, when I changed #!/bin/sh into #!/opt/bin/bash suddenly the problem disappeared!
Wow, another small giant step…

But, although I had read about ogg producing noise and having updated ogg and vorbis on my NAS, it only still produces noise.
Now, as I found out, it boils down on endianess in ogg.
But what I have read about that does not ring a nice little bell in me.
Maybe you or someone else could give me a clue.
I have compiled mt-daapd, so, what’s next?

Greets,
Marc

[sollie]

Can you post your compilation for me. So i can test it also. I will help you envestigate, coz i want to buy a Soundbridge Radio.

Sollie.

[rpedde]

@mumsoft wrote:

But, although I had read about ogg producing noise and having updated ogg and vorbis on my NAS, it only still produces noise.
Now, as I found out, it boils down on endianess in ogg.
But what I have read about that does not ring a nice little bell in me.
Maybe you or someone else could give me a clue.
I have compiled mt-daapd, so, what’s next?

Does this use the wl500g packages? What unslung packages does this platform use?

[mumsoft]

@rpedde wrote:

@mumsoft wrote:

But, although I had read about ogg producing noise and having updated ogg and vorbis on my NAS, it only still produces noise.
Now, as I found out, it boils down on endianess in ogg.
But what I have read about that does not ring a nice little bell in me.
Maybe you or someone else could give me a clue.
I have compiled mt-daapd, so, what’s next?

Does this use the wl500g packages? What unslung packages does this platform use?

Well, I am by no means an expert in this matter, but wl500g packages don’t work for what I know.
I have followed the excellent instructions from K.C.Furge to tweak the firmware from asus:
http://home.comcast.net/~kfurge/wl700ge.html
As you can read there we use these packages:
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable

I updated these last week and got new ogg and vorbis packages, so I hoped the noise-problem would be over. But alas.
Further I understand the Asus WL-700gE is a Mipsel little endian machine with a broadcom chipset.
I beleive…

[mumsoft]

@sollie wrote:

Can you post your compilation for me. So i can test it also. I will help you envestigate, coz i want to buy a Soundbridge Radio.

Sollie.

Hi Sollie,
Have you changed your mind? I thought you hate buttonless devices…
Anyway, I have posted my feeble How-to compile mt-daapd in ‘our’ forum here:
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=55441#post55441

Have a go…

[sollie]

LOL, The “Soundbridge Radio” has buttons.

Thanks for all you work.

Sollie.

[mumsoft]

Hi,

After much effort I finally got music from my ogg-files with Firefly and the Roku Soundbridge.
Just one problem persists.
If the foldername of a directory contains accented characters, the Roku can’t play the transcoded ogg-file. If the same directory contains a mp3 file, there is no problem whatsoever.
My directories are encoded in iso-8895-1. With convmv I tried to translate to utf-8 and cp850, but that did not help.
If I leave out the accented characters, so that the names are pure ASCII, there is no problem. But I have more than 800 directories to work through, so I hope to hear a smarter solution.
Until now I thought it would be a Roku-related problem, but now I see it’s rather related with Firefly Plus transcoding. 🙁

[rpedde]

@mumsoft wrote:

Hi,

After much effort I finally got music from my ogg-files with Firefly and the Roku Soundbridge.
Just one problem persists.
If the foldername of a directory contains accented characters, the Roku can’t play the transcoded ogg-file. If the same directory contains a mp3 file, there is no problem whatsoever.
My directories are encoded in iso-8895-1. With convmv I tried to translate to utf-8 and cp850, but that did not help.
If I leave out the accented characters, so that the names are pure ASCII, there is no problem. But I have more than 800 directories to work through, so I hope to hear a smarter solution.
Until now I thought it would be a Roku-related problem, but now I see it’s rather related with Firefly Plus transcoding. 🙁

Hmm.. i’m not sure if that’s an issue with firefly or with oggdec, which it calls to transcode. Then only thing I can possibly think is that perhaps it’s mangling the file name when it does shell escapes.

Can you email me the name of a bad folder in utf-8 format, so I can try and create it in codepage and duplicate it?

You can send it to me at [email protected].

Thanks.

— Ron

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