Comments on: StarPlayr2 (Mindy Returns) http://perusse.net/2008/04/28/starplayr2-mindy-returns/ Perusing the net for at least a week and a half... Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Goodtime http://perusse.net/2008/04/28/starplayr2-mindy-returns/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Goodtime Mon, 12 May 2008 07:36:38 +0000 http://wp.perusse.net/2008/04/28/starplayr2-mindy-returns/#comment-22 The instant replay feature is still considered experimental and this feature is not totally finished. Getting it to work is a miracle as the native ASF stream from Sirius is not seekable out of the box. I really wish people would understand that we are dealing with a Windows Media 9 stream. It is not something that is native to Mac OS X. VLC, Mplayer and Flip4MAC WMV plugin are the only programs that I know of that can decode the stream. There are a few other unix apps that can download it but not decode it. All three of these programs listed have their limitations. StarPlayr2 currently uses Mplayer. We were able to make the stream seekable, but no time line is available. I have a few ideas on how to emulate the time line and predict where the user is in the stream and calculate approximately how long the stream is. Now it may be possible to do what you are griping about. But it is a challenge and it will take time to implement it and get it right. NiceMac LLC is a two person part time operation. One person is dedicated to Clonetool, another person is dedicated to StarPlayr2. Perhaps one day we will have the means and the resources necessary to have better Instant Replay or TiVo functionality. We are simply not there yet. If Sirius used a native RTSP Quicktime stream, this would be much easier to pull off. Sincerely, Goodtime The instant replay feature is still considered experimental and this feature is not totally finished.

Getting it to work is a miracle as the native ASF stream from Sirius is not seekable out of the box.

I really wish people would understand that we are dealing with a Windows Media 9 stream. It is not something that is native to Mac OS X.

VLC, Mplayer and Flip4MAC WMV plugin are the only programs that I know of that can decode the stream. There are a few other unix apps that can download it but not decode it. All three of these programs listed have their limitations. StarPlayr2 currently uses Mplayer. We were able to make the stream seekable, but no time line is available. I have a few ideas on how to emulate the time line and predict where the user is in the stream and calculate approximately how long the stream is. Now it may be possible to do what you are griping about. But it is a challenge and it will take time to implement it and get it right.

NiceMac LLC is a two person part time operation. One person is dedicated to Clonetool, another person is dedicated to StarPlayr2.

Perhaps one day we will have the means and the resources necessary to have better Instant Replay or TiVo functionality. We are simply not there yet.

If Sirius used a native RTSP Quicktime stream, this would be much easier to pull off.

Sincerely,

Goodtime

]]> By: Goodtime http://perusse.net/2008/04/28/starplayr2-mindy-returns/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Goodtime Sat, 10 May 2008 21:29:12 +0000 http://wp.perusse.net/2008/04/28/starplayr2-mindy-returns/#comment-21 The official 2.0 version is out. As for the lockups. It because the other apps are killing the sp2mplayer, not really a problem with StarPlayr2. iCal Scripting is back, so you can dumo StarPlayr1 which is causing the problem. Other apps such as SiriusMac that use Mplayer could cause a conflict with the sp2mplayer and sp2lame. We will try to rename them (again) and omit the words mplayer (maybe mplayr and call LAME, mp3lib). We have not corrected this yet as we've been advising users not to run SP1 and SP2 at the same time. WIth iCal scripting added, it should not be an issue killing off SP1. Sincerely, Goodtime The official 2.0 version is out.

As for the lockups. It because the other apps are killing the sp2mplayer, not really a problem with StarPlayr2.

iCal Scripting is back, so you can dumo StarPlayr1 which is causing the problem.

Other apps such as SiriusMac that use Mplayer could cause a conflict with the sp2mplayer and sp2lame. We will try to rename them (again) and omit the words mplayer (maybe mplayr and call LAME, mp3lib). We have not corrected this yet as we’ve been advising users not to run SP1 and SP2 at the same time.

WIth iCal scripting added, it should not be an issue killing off SP1.

Sincerely,

Goodtime

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