This encoding plugin features a fixed-point mp3 encoder,
with faster encoding on architectures without a FPU.
Right now the encoder is limited to stereo and 16 bit depth.
The bitrate and sample rate can be modified in audio_output.
audio_output {
type "httpd"
name "My shine stream"
encoder "shine"
port "8000"
format "44100:16:2"
bitrate "320" # default: 128
}
Allows big-endian users to configure the fallback byte order to
little-endian. Without this setting, MPD assumes native byte order if
the CD drive can't decide.
The "loop_count" configuration parameter allows the user to set how
many times a module with backward loops shall loop. "0" (the default)
means a module is not allowed to use backward loops at all. "-1"
enables inifinite looping.
This patch allows the user to configure the mikmod decoder plugin to loop
modules. It adds a configuration parameter to the mikmod decoder called
"loop" which can be "no" (the old behaviour, default) or "yes" to allow
modules to use backward loops.
This plugin is cumbersome to support, now that MPD is migrating away
from GLib and the GLib event loop. It has no practical advantages
over the CURL plugin. Soup requires the bloated GType library.
Version 4 of my patch to add DSF support to the DSDIFF
decoder plugin.
This time I have taken a different approach and created a new
read_metadata function specific for reading DSF files. This saves an
indent (and for me a lot of indent nightmares) and also useful for
splitting the DSF and DFF decoders later on.
There are still a few lines which exceed the 80 character width limit by
a few chars. I was not able to stay within the limit and create (for me)
readable code.
Jurgen
To demonstrate the new I/O thread. libsoup is well-integrated into
the GLib main loop, which made this plugin pretty easy to write.
As a side effect, we have to initialize the I/O thread in all debug
programs that use the input API.
This patch fixes a typo in doc/user about playlist plugins.
Its in the top commit in my repository in a branch called 'doc_fix':
git://github.com/mcfiredrill/mpd.git
Using libffado, to play on firewire audio devices.
Warning: this plugin was not tested successfully. I just couldn't
keep libffado2 from crashing. Use at your own risk.
For details, see my Debian bug reports:
http://bugs.debian.org/601657http://bugs.debian.org/601659
Added support for a new optional configuration setting for the httpd output
named "bind_to_address". Setting it to a specific IP address (v4 or v6) will
cause the httpd output to bind to that address exclusively. Supporting
multiple addresses in parallel is future work.
This implements the feature requests #2998 and #2646.
Did you ever accidently click "stop" while feeding a radio station?
This option sets the output device to "pause" to disable the "close"
method. It falls back to "pause" then, which is specific to the
plugin. Some plugins implement it by feeding silence.
Add an option for each audio output which enables the use of the
hardware mixer, instead of the software volume code.
This is hardware specific, and assumes linear volume control. This is
not the case for hardware mixers which were tested, making this patch
somewhat useless, but we will use it to experiment with the settings,
to find a good solution.
Same as the previous patch: create up to 16 configured source ports.
The plugin tries to do its best at guessing the right combination for
the given input file, the number of source and destination ports.
jack_client_new() is deprecated. This requires libjack 0.100
(released nearly 5 years ago). We havn't been testing older libjack
versions anyway.
As a side effect, there is the new option "autostart".
The recorder plugin writes audio played by MPD to a file. This may be
useful for recording radio streams.
This implementation is incomplete, because support for tags is
missing, and MPD should be able to record each track to a different
file.
Do all the software volume stuff inside each output thread, not in the
player thread. This allows one software mixer per output device, and
also allows the user to configure the mixer type (hardware or
software) for each audio output.
This moves the global "mixer_type" setting into the "audio_output"
section, deprecating the "mixer_enabled" flag.
- introduce a section explaining the mpd.conf format, as done in the man page:
is it better to re-explain it here or ointing the user to the man page,
avoiding information dupplication?
- reorganizze some sections of the manual to give them a linear aspect...
Let's get rid of the "shout" plugin, and the awfully complicated
icecast daemon setup! MPD can do better if it's doing the HTTP server
stuff on its own. This new plugin has several advantages:
- easier to set up - only one daemon, no password settings, no mount
settings
- MPD controls the encoder and thus already knows the packet
boundaries - icecast has to parse them
- MPD doesn't bother to encode data while nobody is listening
This implementation is very experimental (no header parsing, ignores
request URI, no icy-metadata, ...). It should be able to suport
several encoders in parallel in the future (with different bit rates,
different codec, ...), to make MPD the perfect streaming server. Once
MPD gets multi-player support, we can even mount several different
radio stations on one server.
