Howto debug when local play doesn't work ?

[Bram van den Hout]

I've recently setup webplay 1.00a w/ mysql on my linux system.
Streaming to remote clients is no problem.
But when using the 'local' option, the player (xaudio) doesn't kick in.

I'm pretty sure that it's not a webplay configuration problem.

What's the best way to troubleshoot this ?

The java applet comes with the message : local play started, but nothing happens.

Any idea's ?

[Bram van den Hout]

My idea is that apache doesn't understand the localhost bit in pls_play.cgi :

($streamer_local = $streamer) =~ s#//.+?(?=:|/)#//localhost#;

So I changed that to :
($streamer_local = $streamer) =~ s#//.+?(?=:|/)#//webplay.braminator.com#;

But this doesn't have any effect either

[david reuteler]

it's probably an issue with xaudio.

is xaudio even being forked?

you should see it running (ps -ef for linux)

panic% ps auxwww|grep xaudio
www      26936  1.1  0.3   224  1068 ??  SN    Sun09PM   51:35.87 /home/webplay/bin/xaudio http://localhost/webplay/cgi-pls/getplaylist.cgi?id=14696&loop=1&br=0&time=1011582976&user=reuteler&group=None&token=8829563c1f5d32656434e92e79aa4783

if it is ..

can it play an mp3 through the speakers from the
command line?  as the webuser?

if it isn't ..

can you run it?  path correct?

[Bram van den Hout]

xaudio is forked.
After i entered the xaudio command with the URL, the command exited with a time-out error.
After this the problem was solved pretty quickly.
Turned out to be a Firewall/Apache conf problem.

Thanks for ur help !!