Bugzilla – Bug 3877
Volume control display only appears very briefly when AlienBBC stream connecting
Last modified: 2006-08-14 15:56:21 UTC
If while you are waiting for a connection to a BBC stream, you press the volume control on the Player remote, you see the volume momentarily displayed on the Player display before the display flicks back to the now connecting message - but it's shown so briefly that you can't see what the volume control setting is. It's as if the 'show briefly' is set to about a tenth of a second. Acording to Triode this is common to all streams. See this thread for discussion:- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26170
Probably want to make volume pass block to showBriefly - I'll look at this..
OK can't handle this with current display code [block on volume means it doesn't update] Will think about this.... One option is to store a name with showBriefly so the calling function can query whether it is the owner of a current showBriefly.
Created attachment 1404 [details] possible solution Andy, Patrick - does this help. It allows the caller of showBriefly to name itself so another potential caller can check to see if they own the text currently being displayed.
Adrian - will I need an update to AlienBBC to test this?
No the "bug" is in the server... If you can test and prove it fixes I would propose to get it in 6.5.
Selecting an AlienBBC stream crashes slimserver v8926 with the following logfile :- [root@music slimserver]# cat /tmp/slimserver.log 2006-08-11 19:13:44.1540 "my" variable %nameHash masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/local/trunk/server/Plugins/SortNames/Plugin.pm line 222. 2006-08-11 19:14:59.7354 ERROR: Path isn't a file URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/surestream.rpm Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/local/trunk/server/Slim/Formats/Playlists.pm line 111. [root@music slimserver]#
Not sure how this patch could crash the server with that message! Could you retry with the server started from the command line - does it work for other streams. If so it is probably another problem crashing the server..
Actually AlienBBC seems to be broken in trunk at the moment ... r8931 too
Yep - server no longer likes playing urls via execute playlist play commands.....!
The patch solves the problem for me. Thanks Adrian.
OK - should be in svn r8944.
Shall we mark this 'fixed' then, or are there additional aspects that need work?
I consider it fixed.