Hi Andrew

just a couple of questions to make myself a clear picture.

I've a VIA based MD with CLE266, and according to its xorg.conf it is already using via driver shipped with Kubuntu/LMCE.

Are you saying that those drivers are NOT Unichrome Pro?

I've given a look at the pdf with the compiling procedure and it's a bit scaring to me. This is because I've tried last week to compile an external module but I messed up all my kernel modules and I had to get them out from a backup.
It looks like the .config file shipped with linux sources / headers differs from what have been used to compile
my actual system modules, so after reboot no module was loaded anymore.

So before going again through the same story I prefer to make 100% sure that this is the only option I have.

TIA
Marco

Hi Faisal

You may have a look at this -> http://devolo.com

Also Netgear sells something similar, and most probably also other vendor do.

I never tested those nice toys (as I told you I managed to get my ethernet backbone in a different way) but I know they are on the market since some years and probably are worth some consideration.

HTH
Marco

Hi Faisal

In the early Pluto times I tried the "wireless way". Performances are acceptable if you have 1 MD and you are streaming divx. The main reason because I moved to "wired" solution were not performances, but overall instability of the system. Sometime wireless connection was lost (this happens also today with wireless orbiters) and this was really annoying.
My solution was to put an ethernet cable using the tv cable run pipes, connecting MD and hybrid.

You may also evaluate those nice ethernet-over-power-lines devices. Some of them can give you also over 100 Mbps connection, that is quite good for media streaming purpose.

HTH
Marco

Hi Zaerc and thanks for your reply

I probably didn't explain properly what my idea is.

Actually I have 1 hybrid and 1 MD. Then I have my own laptop with all my work stuff  and wife laptop (both wireless enabled).
When using those laptops in a room with no hybrid/MD, the idea is to be able to listen to music directly from the laptops.
I think that installing the windows orbiter won't help me that much, because AFAIK it is only a control interface (no media playback out of it).
Squeezeboxes are interesting but for time beeing they are not an option, so I was thinking to use Softsqueeze.

I understood that Softqueeze should be a full emulator of Squeezebox so it would behave as a PnP device, but this is not happening. I'm keen to think that I'm doing something wrong or maybe I'm missing something from the configuration side.
I don't think it's a problem with firewall blocking ports, (at least not after issuing iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT), but again I may be wrong.

It looks that no one did succesfully set up Softsqueeze with LMCE, so I will try again and keep posted of my progress (if any)

Of course any suggestion is welcome

Regards
Marco

I agree that Squeezebox is an appliance and that is more flexible (no pc needed).
Actually I was thinking to use Softsqueeze for those pc that I don't want to use as MD. Say that wife or kids are using pc for different stuff, but wanting to listen to some music in background.
OK, I know that I can obtain the same result accessing via Samba to all audio files stored in public folder, but softsqueeze looks a very neat solutions and can increase WAF factor 

Regards
Marco

Hi Thom

you can use triggered events. In admin site go to Wizard -> Events Handler -> Respond to events and create your own event. You can choose which event to respond to, and one or more event to fire.

HTH
Marco

Just to add some info ...

I've tried Softsqueeze included in Slimserver installed with LMCE and also the most recent release dowloaded from official site, with same result : "Player not found".

I could be wrong, but it sounds to me that it may be a configuration problem i.e that Slimserver does not know anything about sw player and does not now how to feed it with audio.

TIA
Marco

Hi all

Even if I'm a former Pluto user since 2005, I'm quite new here so first of all thanks to all for the amazing work done so far.

I'm trying to make use of Softsqueeze in my LMCE environment. I followed some instructions I found here that belong to former Plutohome forum, but no avail.
When I was running Pluto I never test those hints, so I don't know whether they are effective or not.

Has anyone it working? Can anyone give me some suggestion to make it work?

TIA
Marco