Absolute Radio?

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:19 pm

Hi all,

I was introduced to Absolute Radio over the Xmas period and trying to put a few of their streams on my XBOX with XBMC. I was on 3259 (I think it was), but have downloaded 3.5 using Dan's excellent installer hoping that would allow playing as it did not via pls playlist on that version, but it still does not with 3.5. I then downloaded TuneIn addon and tried via that, with no success, so was curious if anyone has succeeded and if so, how? The links work fine with VLC on a PC.?

TIA

The log shows

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16:30:45 M: 34443264 WARNING: -->Python Initialized<--
16:30:47 M: 30326784   ERROR: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::SetProperty called with an invalid handle.
16:30:54 M: 25399296   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/>
16:30:54 M: 27484160   ERROR: MP3Codec: Unable to open file http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
16:30:54 M: 27484160   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
16:30:54 M: 28282880   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/]

and for the TuneIn attempt

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17:14:29 M: 25767936  NOTICE: -->Python Initialized<--
17:14:36 M: 21688320   ERROR: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::SetProperty called with an invalid handle.
17:14:46 M: 22745088   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/>
17:14:46 M: 24846336   ERROR: MP3Codec: Unable to open file http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
17:14:46 M: 24870912   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
17:14:46 M: 25690112   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/]
17:14:48 M: 22458368   ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://mp3-a7-32.timlradio.co.uk/>
17:14:48 M: 24559616   ERROR: MP3Codec: Unable to open file http://mp3-a7-32.timlradio.co.uk/
17:14:48 M: 24580096   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://mp3-a7-32.timlradio.co.uk/
17:14:48 M: 25399296   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 1, path [http://mp3-a7-32.timlradio.co.uk/]

Post by **Dan Dar3** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:29 pm

Thanks Gasman for the comments.

Can you post a debug log please:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... p?f=6&t=65

Might shed some more light into this line:

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16:30:54 M: 27484160   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:19 pm

Thanks Dan,

Here is a log with the XBOX just switched on and only having tried to access Absolute Radio via the playlist

The playlist (pls) contains

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[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
Title1=Absolute Radio 70s (High Quality) 
Length1=-1
Version=2

http://pastebin.com/qzNxVENW

Post by **Dan Dar3** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:35 pm

@Gasman
Please try again enabling DEBUG mode first (see the link I provided earlier).

I can't try your stream myself as it's not available outside UK (will redirect me to an mp3 saying just that).

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:30 pm

Dan Dar3 wrote:@Gasman
Please try again enabling DEBUG mode first (see the link I provided earlier).

I can't try your stream myself as it's not available outside UK (will redirect me to an mp3 saying just that).

oops, sorry, I missed that part.

http://pastebin.com/PrktdQiD

Post by **Dan Dar3** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:06 pm

Ok, not sure I read those lines correctly, but I think it's trying to use PAPlayer to play the stream.

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12:24:27 M: 56532992  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
...
12:26:13 M: 40759296   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding audiodefaultplayer (3)
12:26:13 M: 40759296   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=0, audio=1
...
12:26:13 M: 40390656   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/]
12:26:13 M: 40390656   DEBUG: Playlist Player: no more playable items... aborting playback
12:26:24 M: 40525824   DEBUG: SECTION:UnloadDelayed(DLL: Q:\system\players\PAPlayer\MADCodec.dll)

What you could try is press White on the .pls file in File Manager or Music view and choose Play Using... > DVDPlayer, does it work with that?

Cause if it works, then we can create a mapping to always play with DVDPlayer, see this thread for more details:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... 850#p24851

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12:26:13 M: 40759296   DEBUG: CCurlFile::GetMimeType - http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/ -> audio/mpeg

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 9:09 pm

Thank You Dan!

When I chose Play With it came up with DVDPlayer (default) but that did not work.
So I chose the next option Mplayer and that plays the stream. I see a dialogue box stating 'Opening File' and then the stream plays.

Then I realised I am still booting to 3295, so switched to 3.5 with same success.

However the stream stops after a 5 or 10 minutes, but at least it is working, as none of the other players will play the stream at all.

I'll head over to that other thread now and create and upload the playercorefactory.xml file, suitably amended of course.

Many thanks for getting to the bottom of this.

I might be back with the stream stopping problem, but will have a look at the log first to see if I can see anything that I might recognise.

Post by **Dan Dar3** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:56 am

Very good!

Might be possible to get fixed in the DVDPlayer itself so I would encourage you to create a Redmine account (if you don't have one already - see Development tab at the top) and raise a ticket with the original details and attaching the .pls file and the debug log. Buzz might take a look and decide on it.

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:04 pm

Dan,

I've applied for the Redmine a/c but the activation email is taking a while.

The mplayer stops the stream after a short period, presumably due to memory leaks?

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11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: Q:\system\players\mplayer\mplayer.dll (base 01510000): Detected memory leaks: 45 leaks
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015110CC, size      128, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0151DFD0, size        4, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0151E1A5, size       40, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0151E279, size       72, counter 2
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0151E46B, size        8, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0151E483, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 0152D439, size        0, counter 5
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015330D6, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015330FB, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 01533121, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015AAFD0, size       44, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C9030, size        1, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C9046, size       28, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C90B6, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C9111, size        5, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C92EF, size       23, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015C9345, size        0, counter 1
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: leak caller address 015CCF49, size      780, counter 23
11:48:22 M: 34783232   DEBUG: mplayer.dll: Total bytes leaked: 1133
11:48:22 M: 40689664   DEBUG: CApplication::SaveFileState - Saving file state for audio item http://mp3-a7-128.timlradio.co.uk/
11:48:22 M: 40689664   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (MusicOverlay.xml) ------

Post by **Dan Dar3** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:34 pm

I don't know, it says 45 leaks of only 1.133 bytes so I don't know. It might be something else in MPlayer but that's not maintained anymore.

Maybe PM Buzz to ask him about the RedMine account if you still don't get a confirmation, or try to login and try to recover the password in case it has been activated but you didn't get the email.

Gasman · Post by **Gasman** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:17 pm

Will do, as I have still not received it.

I've just tried looging in to the Redmine a/c and it stated not activated, so used the link to resend the activation link again.

The second one has turned up.

Now I've found the first one in Gmail spam on webmail. I use Outlook to access my mail. The second mail however has come to my inbox in Gmail no problem.

After my last post, the stream has been working for over an hour, so no clue as to why it stopped twice initially.

Again, thanks for the help.

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