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Knots 2 - easy media streaming for most operating systems
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Larswad
2010-04-14 , 10:50
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Hello!
Very very strange. Everything was working perfectly, then just suddenly every browser (chrome, firefox) gives me:
"FLASH VERSION 9,0 OR GREATER IS REQUIRED
You have no flash plugin installed
Click here to download latest version"
EDIT:
Well, strange as it is I managed to get the flash player upgraded (or reinstalled whatever) and now it works. Strange though that this thing happened as I had played one song successfully and suddenly the next one I played didn't work. And of course I hadn't done anything to my browser in between.
I have restarted the server several times without no change. N900 streaming still works though! (even if it sometimes seems to end up in a state where progress bar moves but no music sounds, I have to restart the knots server app. when that happens).
I have now observed a list of different strange things, its important though to understand I'm NOT complaining here, knots2 is a very nice app anyway. I'm just informing the developer about these issues:
1. Sometimes VLC refuse to start when starting knots2 (knots informs about this in the terminal). What I do then is to stop knots2 and retry, and then usually it starts again.
2. Sometimes knots2 cannot be stopped with CTRL+C, it just refuse to die. I have to kill the process using kill <pid>.
3. Not too seldomly it appears to end up in a state where the song
appears
to be playing but no sound actually comes out. Solution is to restart knots2 a couple of times.
4. The is no log out option in knots2, therefore it's difficult to switch user. Sometimes it also accumulates users at the status tab, even if I'm at the very same browser session.
5. Fetching covers may fail without obvious reason. I overcame this by increasing some hard loop limit in the code where the covers are fetched (don't remember where I did that, but it helped when having lot of music).
6. I'm used to a normal 'pause' button...there is none.
7. Regardless if the current tune has completed or is currently playing (and after having used the 'hide' button), I have to go back to the tune I played and press the blue 'stop' button, otherwise I won't be able to start another song.
8. The player plugin doesn't seem to work in IE at all (it's not fully sized and no song plays even if bar is moving). Doesn't matter to me though since I'm not using IE.
Please let me know if I'm fuzzy, or if I can help with logs or something.
I'm using knots2 under ubuntu karmic. I have not compiled ffmpeg myself, just used the repos. I use authentication externally from my network, but without SSL (I know, maybe not the best). My router forwards the 1978 port (only).
Regards
Lars
Last edited by Larswad; 2010-04-14 at
11:48
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