andrewfg – 2 hours ago  » 

I’m just a little confused by your post. You say your client has difficulties in playing MP3’s served by Whitebear, then say it plays native MP3’s. Do you mean he has difficulties in playing other formats transcoded to MP3 ?

Correct.

as a first step I’ve tried to prove Whitebear transcoding works to a PC based DLNA client. Installed your server and squeezebox on my PC, and using XBMC as the client I can play mp3’s OK, but flac fails. … Whitebear server now listing a full set of transcoders but XBMC still won’t play flac.

So it sounds like I have the same problem with XMBC then. (I will look into this too). But on this forum I would ideally like to focus on the Humax issue…

Yes, I understand that. I was just trying to establish a baseline I could work from. Going on from there. Copying over the lame.exe just prevented anything from playing at all in XBMC, or even being listed on the HDR T2, so I just removed it again. Once I did that MP3’s were listed on the HDR T2, but nothing else. So, I renamed a .flac audio file and gave it the .MP3 extension. Refreshed the database and it was then listed on the T2. Selected it and it played back successfully. So, bottom line is the HDR T2 will only recognise and list audio named with the .MP3 extension, but will accept other formats transcoded to .MP3 by the server.

andrewfg – 4 hours ago  » 

Hi,

I am the software author of Whitebear media server ( http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver )

One of my clients has a Humax HDR FOX T2 and is experiencing tremendous difficulties getting it to play MP3 files served by Whitebear media server. (It plays native MP3 files, but won’t play files transcoded on the fly from (say) flac to MP3. My current guess is that it is a timing issue in the HTTP transfer process.)

I am trying to find somebody who knows a lot about the inner quirks of the Humax UPnP functionality, so that I can (hopefully) adapt Whitebear media server to get it to work properly.

I’m just a little confused by your post. You say your client has difficulties in playing MP3’s served by Whitebear, then say it plays native MP3’s. Do you mean he has difficulties in playing other formats transcoded to MP3 ?

Unfortunately the Humax UPnP server is closed source. Only people who can help you with that is Humax.

I have an HDR T2, but as a first step I’ve tried to prove Whitebear transcoding works to a PC based DLNA client. Installed your server and squeezebox on my PC, and using XBMC as the client I can play mp3’s OK, but flac fails.

Checked Whitebear and it listed all transcoders except lame.exe as being available. Located Lame.exe in one of my other multimedia apps and copied it to C:Program FilesSqueezeboxserverBinMSWin32-x86-multi-thread. Whitebear server now listing a full set of transcoders but XBMC still won’t play flac.

That’s good to know. How do you assign the drive to record to ? And can you copy from one USB drive to the other ? If so, does SD get decrypted when copied ?

REPASSAC – 3 hours ago  » 

Being a bit lazy – I don’t really want to learn how to recompile busybox source. I am playing with a script and need to know the date.

Hi David,

1. Download the precompiled mips binary from http://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.18.4/busybox-mips

2. Using FTP, copy it to the /opt/bin directory on the HDR and rename it to busybox.

3. Create a symlink for the date command by opening a telnet session on the HDR and entering:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/date

Now when you type

date –help

you should see:

BusyBox v1.18.4 (2011-04-04 19:31:40 CDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: date [OPTIONS] [+FMT] [TIME]

Display time (using +FMT), or set time

Options:

[-s,–set] TIME Set time to TIME

-u,–utc Work in UTC (don’t convert to local time)

-R,–rfc-2822 Output RFC-2822 compliant date string

-I[SPEC] Output ISO-8601 compliant date string

SPEC=’date’ (default) for date only,

‘hours’, ‘minutes’, or ‘seconds’ for date and

time to the indicated precision

-r,–reference FILE Display last modification time of FILE

-d,–date TIME Display TIME, not ‘now’

-D FMT Use FMT for -d TIME conversion

Recognized TIME formats:

hh:mm[:ss]

[YYYY.]MM.DD-hh:mm[:ss]

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm[:ss]

[[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss]

Unfortunately, the date still needs to be initialised by ‘settop’ before the date function will return a valid value.

You may also want to try:

compare:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/cmp

and

difference:

ln -s /opt/bin/busybox /opt/bin/diff

Any other command you may need, you can create a symlink for by using the same method outlined above.

Just enter

busybox

for a full list of the commands you already have

and

/opt/bin/busybox

for the commands that are available.

regards

raydon

The T2 is a DLNA client. You need to have a DLNA server running on your PC for the T2 to access your media files. If you are using Windows 7 check out the information here. or Google for Windows 7 DLNA server.

grahamlthompson – 2 hours ago  » 

If Raydon reads this can he please check if he still has file update capability on the fourshared site ?

Right click on item/select Properties/Update tab/Browse/Update

Yep, working OK for me at 17:00hrs

grahamlthompson – 14 minutes ago  » 

Bit more info please. I edited all three ITV recording filenames to RoyalWeddingITV.

Now of course they won’t play on the hdr from the archive drive presumably because the .hmt file does not now reflect the new filename.

Is it easy to edit the .hmt file to reflect the new name or do I have to run the whole file through AV2HDR to rebuild the .hmt and .nts files ?.

Thanks

Graham

As long as the hmt nts and ts have identical filenames it should play on the HDR. You must also drag the hmt only into AV2HDR (Edit HMT mode) and edit out the funny characters in the name from there too. No need to rebuild the whole thing.