can't emerge media-sound/squeezeslave-1.1_p381

[SylaSebas]

hi you guys

in short: i tried to reinstall squeezeslave but it doesn't work if I use the USE flags "alsa aac wma". without these flags it emerges ...

here's (a part of) the error message:

[audiodef]

What version of media-video/libav do you have? Try reinstalling that version, or up/downgrading.
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[SylaSebas]

hey there

thanks for your answer. i tried to emerge libav ... seems to cause a problem with ffmpeg:

[TomWij]

You'll want either ffmpeg or libav, not both; so, if you want to go for one, unmerge the other first.

As per libav's 0.7.7 ChangeLog from two years ago it appears it seems to be replaced as seen in

[audiodef]

[SylaSebas]

thanks you guys!

i'll try to install it with libav as soon as i've got the time.

i'll let you know what happend!

best regards, silvan

[Rahvin83]

Hey, I just stumbled across this, and decided to spend the time to hunt down the blockers.

diff -r squeezeslave-1.1_p381/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder.c squeezeslave-1.1_p381.new/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder.c
72c72
< avcodec_init();
---
> //avcodec_init();
diff -r squeezeslave-1.1_p381/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder_aac.c squeezeslave-1.1_p381.new/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder_aac.c
167c167
< AVIOCtx->is_streamed = 1;
---
> AVIOCtx->seekable = 0;
277c277
< if ( url_ferror(pFormatCtx->pb) )
---
> if ( pFormatCtx->pb && pFormatCtx->pb->error )
315c315
< av_close_input_stream(pFormatCtx);
---
> av_close_input_file(pFormatCtx);
diff -r squeezeslave-1.1_p381/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder_wma.c squeezeslave-1.1_p381.new/src/slimaudio/slimaudio_decoder_wma.c
162c162
< AVIOCtx->is_streamed = 1;
---
> AVIOCtx->seekable = 0;
273c273
< if ( url_ferror(pFormatCtx->pb) )
---
> if ( pFormatCtx->pb && pFormatCtx->pb->error )
311c311
< av_close_input_stream(pFormatCtx);
---
> av_close_input_file(pFormatCtx);



It compiles at least, but I didn't get around to testing yet. Looking at the changes though, those changes shouldn't be more than cosmetic. That doesn't mean that the code I didn't touch will work
Looking at the number of deprecated warnings that continue to be thrown, I don't expect this to be a fix for more than a few months, until ffmpeg dances the jig again.

Once you open a bug, you can test that code and see if it actually works, then submit it as a patch, in the hope that this will get it revision-bumped in portage.

Edit: Just tried opening a SomaFM AAC stream with it, and while it's not the complete failure it was before without AAC support, it still only loads the metadata, and will not open the stream.
I'll leave fixing that as an exercise to the reader

[SylaSebas]

thanks for all your help guys!

I opened up a bug report

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481062


About submitting the code: never done that before, can you tell me what/how to do it?

cheers

[Rahvin83]

On another note: have you tried to manually compile the latest version of squeezeslave?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/softsqueeze/files/squeezeslave/squeezeslave-1.3.393/

It's been committed this year, and may work.

You'll have to manually configure and make, but this issue may be fixed upstream already, and all we're seeing here is a maintainer not keeping up with releases.

[Rahvin83]

So, I just tried, and that version compiles flawlessly.
Clearly the issue here is that while Squeezeslave is already a badly maintained piece of software, it is even worse cared for in the Portage tree.
Until further notice I would recommend manually building the 1.3, I suppose aac and wma are activated by default, as all of the configure is automatically done by the makefile.

I'll test it now, and get back to you and the bug report with my results ASAP.

Edit:

I still cannot get AAC streams from SomaFM to work, with this version. Haven't tried others or "local" files yet.

[Rahvin83]

Right, this is quite disheartening:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-93607.html

The squeezeslave maintainer said last year

" Ignore the AAC and WMA decoders as I'm planning to rewrite them and they are not part of the official build anyway."

and since then there was no further mention of this feature, and a feature freeze for squeezeslave was announced in April of this year.
Apparently squeezelite is supposed to take over as a more fully featured alternative.

I think I tried squeezelite, before settling on squeezeslave, and it just didn't work at the time.

Anyway, it doesn't look too good for aac support, it's definitely not supported in the latest build.

Edit: I think the issue with sqeezelite was its inability to run as a service on my machine.
It does play AAC when started attached to a shell though.
Auto-discovery of LMS also fails.

[SylaSebas]

well I tried squeezelite and it works fine for me ... so I'll still post news about squeezeslave if I get any but I'm gonna use squeezelite now!

thanks to all of you who posted here!