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Users / How to create a scenario submenu for net radios

« on: April 20, 2009, 11:58:02 pm »

Hi List,

I have successfully managed to follow the how-to "Internet Radio" http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Internet_Radio.

But if you want several radios the media section soon get messed up.

My first approach was to see if it is possible to make a sub scenario. I first make a Radio Senario under "Audio" and then tried to make some sub scenarios under that. But it seems that it is not possible to make a kind of menu of scenarios.

My Next approach was to use the Media Type "LinuxMCE Live Radio" (#6). I hacked the DB and pointed that media type to /home/public/data/netradio (actually i only set the dir value to "netradio" LinuxMCE figures out the rest). Then i created a scenario that looked like the audio scenario but changed the Media Type to 6. The GUI changes when i click the Button, but the list is empty. My idea here is to make .m3u files that each link to a net radio station.

I have also tried to make a special playlist but that did not work either.

Is there a way in LinuxMCE to achieve what i want.

Tim

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Installation issues / Re: No sound when using a usb sound system

« on: April 19, 2009, 01:02:07 am »

Why is this an edge case?

According to the information in http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Changing_Xine_Player_Audio_Settings the values for S/PDIF are linked to a the "asym_spdif" section in asound.inf but Stereo is hard coded to the value plughw:0.

If Stereo is linked to asym_analog and it is defined as follow

pcm.asym_analog {
   type asym
   playback.pcm "plughw:0"
   capture.pcm "plughw:0"
}

The result is the same.

You mention in an earlier post that the selection of sound card should be changed. I would like to suggest that a list of devices are shown to select from. If you make it possible to play a test sound for each device the user will quickly be able to select the right device. 

Tim

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Installation issues / Re: No sound when using a usb sound system [solved]

« on: April 18, 2009, 02:05:22 am »

Hi list,

I finally managed to make my usb sound system work with LMCE. I discovered a Wiki article http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Changing_Xine_Player_Audio_Settings where it describes the settings for XINE.

It turns out that a setting in WebAdmin should be changed.
In "advanced/configuration/devices" you should select "the core/hybrid" and change "Audio Settings" to M. This means that LinuxMCE does not change the xine.conf file.

The current behaviour in LMCE is that when Stereo is selected as audio output then LMCE modifies the xine.conf parameter
audio.alsa_front_device' with the value plughw:0.

I would suggest that this should be changed so the Stereo selection does not change the xine.conf in that way the audio is played thru the default sound card in asound.conf.

Thanks for your help

Tim

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Installation issues / Re: No sound when using a usb sound system

« on: April 16, 2009, 11:09:20 pm »

Hi again

After some reading about alsa i have come a little futher

in the asound.conf i have modified asym_analog to

pcm.asym_analog {
      type hw
      card 1
      device 0
}

in "system settings/sound system" i have selected alsa on the hardware tab. (and applied changes)
after that i have tried the test button on the "general" tab and the sound is now coming from my usb speakers

But still now usb sound in the orbiter, only the noisy sound from the onboard sound card 

I have tried with the default settings in xine.conf

then i have tried
audio.device.alsa_front_device:default
audio.alsa_front_device:default

and

audio.device.alsa_front_device:plughw 1
audio.alsa_front_device:plughw 1

and all i get is the onboard sound card

I am a little lost.

Tim

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Installation issues / Re: No sound when using a usb sound system

« on: April 15, 2009, 01:10:16 am »

Thanks for your suggestions but i am not sure how to change the asound.conf

At the moment the asym part is
pcm.asym_analog {
   type asym
   playback.pcm "plughw:0"
   capture.pcm "plughw:0"
}
pcm.!default asym_analog

When i do a  cat /proc/asound/cards i get
0 [CMI8738        ]: CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
                      C-Media CMI8738 (model 55) at 0xc800, irq 18
1 [default        ]: USB-Audio - Microsoft Digital Sound System
                      Microsoft Microsoft Digital Sound System  at usb-0000:00:1d.0-2, full speed
2 [Bt878          ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878
                      Brooktree Bt878 at 0xe0001000, irq 21
3 [Bt878_1        ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878

I have tried to change to

pcm.asym_analog {
   type asym
   playback.pcm "plughw:1"
   capture.pcm "plughw:1"
}

and restarted the orbiter but that did not help.

Any suggestions?

Tim

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Installation issues / No sound when using a usb sound system

« on: April 14, 2009, 01:50:23 pm »

Hi List,

I have an issue with a USB sound system that i try to use with LMCE. It works very vell in the Kubuntu desktop with Amarok and the xcine player but in the orbiter there is no sound. In the desktop players I have selected ALSA as the sound system so I am sure that it works.

When I first installed the system i used the internal analog onboard sound, but it was very noisy, so i decided to try the USB solution. I have disabled the onboard sound in the bios, but that did not solve the problem.

When I run the wizard at startup do not hear any sound.

Tim