Fwd: [bongo-devel] bongo not working on debian lenny

[Daniel Brockman]

Forwarding the resolution of a problem whose discussion was
accidentally taken off-list.


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From: Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [bongo-devel] bongo not working on debian lenny
To: Richard Riley <address@hidden>


Hi again Richard,

> It works now. I have a feeling it MIGHT have been because I had no other
> player installed than mplayer. Anyway, I happened to install vlc
> yesterday and now I can use mplayer to work with bongo.

I'll try to look into that.  Thank you for the report.

>
> One thing I am not sure of though.
>
> I can play the following
>
> mplayer http://gffstream.ic.llnwd.net/stream/gffstream_w5a
>
> from the command line and from a playlist to mplayer (mplayer -playlist 
> file.pls)
>
> Also I use the bbc and its played like this from the command line:
>
> mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram
>
> It also play from a playlist file like the one above. However they wont
> both ply from bongo. If I set a switch in the customization to
> "-playlist" then the bbc ones plays but the other doesnt. If I dont
> provide "playlist" then the other one plays but the BBC ones doesnt.
>
> What can be done in Bongo to facilitate this do you think?

Here is one thing you can do.  Put this in your init file:

(defun rriley-start-mplayer-playlist-player
  (file-name &optional extra-arguments)
  (let ((bongo-mplayer-extra-arguments '("-playlist")))
    (funcall 'bongo-start-mplayer-player file-name extra-arguments)))

(add-to-list 'bongo-backends 'rriley-mplayer-playlist t)
(put 'rriley-mplayer-playlist 'bongo-backend
     '(rriley-mplayer-playlist
       (constructor . rriley-start-mplayer-playlist-player)
       (pretty-name . "mplayer with `-playlist'")))

Then use C-u RET to play the track that needs `-playlist' and
choose your custom player from the list.

It would be nice to handle this out-of-the-box, though.  Thanks for
the report.

Hope this helps,

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Daniel Brockman
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