Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

[simoncn]

(27-11-2013 15:26)PeteManchester Wrote:  I have managed to recreate the issue, by editing my mpd.conf to disable the ffmpeg codec

Code:

decoder {
plugin "ffmpeg"
enabled "no"
}

With the codec disabled I cannot play wav files and also when playing flac files there are a lot of crackles and pops..

So it looks as though you either don't have the ffmpeg codec installed for some reason or the codec is not working.

I have googled to find out how the codec is installed with mpd but have not had much success yet.

I will carry on looking but in the meantime I have attached my mpd.conf file, although by default mpd works without making any changes, the changes I have made are just tweaks.

What version of rapsian do you have installed, from the logs it looks like the hard float version , is it an old version?

Thanks,

Pete.

Thanks for this pointer to the probable cause of the problem.

I am using the hard-float version. I believe Raspbian (as opposed to Debian) is always hard-float. Are you using hard-float Raspbian as well?

I installed the full Raspbian image earlier this year (about March or April) and I have just done a full upgrade to the the latest levels of all packages using apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. However, this would not install any new packages that are now part of the latest image but weren't part of the image I originally installed (for example, Oracle Java).

I've done some customization of my image, so it would be extra work for me to start again from scratch with the latest image, especially as I didn't make complete notes on everything that I customized.

I have chosen to install libav/avconv on my Pi instead of FFmpeg. On Debian, libav is preferred to ffmpeg, and the Debian ffmpeg package is a deprecated wrapper that calls libav. I will investigate whether mpd can be configured to use libav/avconv instead of ffmpeg.