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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
A Raspberry Pi is only powerful enough to transcode audio, including audio in videos (like DTS). It is not powerful enough to transcode SD video.

So don't expect to be able to play AVI or any video that is not H264. Also you will probably not be able to play 1080p H264 video with very high bitrates (> 10Mbps) because even if it is compatible being H264, it can max out the WiFi bandwidth and require (CPU expensive) transcoding to lower it.

1. Only the subs are converted. Subtitles by themselves are never the cause of video transcoding

2. transcoding is performed by BubbleUPnP Server on the machine it is installed.

3. yes
[Android Apps and Games] Bronto9:
I'm using only H264 video without very high bitrates, and usually also the audio codec is supported, so there's no problem about transcoding.

Thanks for your help, I'm gonna buy the chromecast and your app(just to thanks you for your awesome work)
[Android Apps and Games] gwapenut:
BubbleUPnPServer broken by latest archlinux on Pogoplug?

Hi

I really hope someone can help, as I've lost use of this great server when trying to upgrade for gapless playback.

I have a PogoPlug mobile running archlinux, minidlna, and bubbleupnpserver.

I tried to upgrade minidlna and bubbleupnpserver yesterday, and that worked fine in that I could see the bubbleupnpserver web interface but not minidlna server within that.

I investigated and found minidlna needed a newer archlinux, and wasn't starting successfully, so I did a system upgrade using "pacman -Syu". That went OK and minidlna now starts.

The problem is, bubbleupnpserver no longer starts at all! I've tried blowing away the files and using makepkg from scratch, but nothing works. This is the same version of bubbleupnpserver that I had working previously before the system upgrade, so it is an interaction between the system and the server.

I don't get any meaningful error messages, the log file does not seem much use to me:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

#

# Internal Error (os_linux_zero.cpp:254), pid=340, tid=1084187744

# fatal error: caught unhandled signal 4

I wondered if anyone had any ideas on how to proceed? I really miss the server!
[Android Apps and Games] whispersatthegate:
Problems

Hi Bubbleguuum

Been having problems with the Bubbleupnp app since upgrading both the app and my ROM, on a Lenovo A820.

When I add only a few tracks to the playlist queue (say an album), it plays okay and saves to a playlist. When I add all music on my phone, it won't save to a playlist. I get a message which is something like "SD card not mounted ?" Obviously, the SD card is mounted, as that is where it is getting the music from.

The app has also closed while I was scrolling through the playlist queue.

I have tried: deleting all data for the app (in Android settings), and also reinstalling both the app and the license, but the problems remain.

Do you have any suggestions?

thanks

Markino
[Android Apps and Games] RamenBooko:
Wondering if anyone has encountered empty folders when using the app over the Internet in conjunction with PS3 Media Server. Network settings look good and am able to select the library. I can then browse the folders but am not able to see any files. I can only see the folder structure and nothing else. I'd appreciate any feedback.

Cheers,
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for reporting. This will be fixed in the next version of BubbleUPnP Server.
[Android Apps and Games] Rusty James:
I have to say "Skifta" (i think you'll find is it's name) didn't work for me, this however worked with my large mp3 collection beautifully.

Now back to your cave Troll.
[Android Apps and Games] MordredKLB:
Hey Bubble,

Last night I had a weird thing happen while I was listening to through the app. I was about 4 songs into a 10 song playlist (created on the app, not a foobar playlist) when I received a phone call. After I got off the phone I realized that the playlist had restarted. I was a little distracted and didn't notice if it finished playing the current song and then restarted, or if it immediately started at song 1. It's possible, but pretty unlikely, that I accidentally hit something on the phone to restart the playlist, but I wanted to report it to you to make sure you knew about it.
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
Hello,

i use BubbleUPnP Server 0.3.2 on a Synology DS211 NAS together with TwonkyServer 6.0.39.

Starting both of them automatically with booting the NAS using start scripts (bubble server starts after twonky) causes BubbleUPnP Server to not show twonky in the "Media Servers" tab.

If I start BubbleUPnP Server manually a few seconds after booting the NAS (and automatically starting twonky), twonky will show up. As a workaround i use a "seep 10" command in the start script for BubbleUPnP Server, which also results in twonky showing up.

thank you for the great software,

winxi
[Android Apps and Games] anorack:
Hi, I'm trying the app in my Transformer prime (TF201) running ICS. I have nothing on my library and I cannot update it. My blu-ray was detected but nothing to play, what am I missing?

The message is No Library Found. I think the problem is on rendering the of the arrow, attached the screenshot.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You need a Media Server on your network (such as a NAS, Windows Media Player, etc) to have something to play.

Alternatively, you can try BubbleUPnP 1.3.0 beta (see here) that will allow you to play your tablet media.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the feedback. Startup order should not matter in theory but here it is difficult to tell why it does.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'll look into it. On phone call, playing track is just paused (on Android 2.3+) as part of the audio focus management. Now after phone call, if you unpause it, track might play from the begininng if the Media Server closed the connection on timeout. But it should not play from 1st playlist track.
[Android Apps and Games] savagemindz:
Hi Bubble,

Great app. I just purchased the full version from the market and it works great for what I wanted to do. I have however found one small bug and I have one feature request I was hoping you could take a look. I don't know if these have been reported before (this thread is 57 pages :eek: )

Ok the bug first. I have 2 tablets and 1 phone all running BubbleUPNP. One of the tablets is setup to be a remote controllable renderer plugged into my hi-fi and the other two devices are the remote controls (just depends which one is handy at the time :) ). I have noticed that if I create a playlist on one remote (say the tablet), play it for a bit and then get the other remote, the now playing screen doesn't get completely updated on the other device (the phone). The progress bar works on both devices and is correct but the device that didn't start the current track shows details of the last thing it played rather than what is currently playing (track name, artist, etc).

Ok and now the feature request although I am not sure this is even possible. I noticed when you create a playlist it isn't sent to the renderer, just the current item is sent. Is it possible to have an option to send the whole playlist so that when I use another device as a remote it can retrieve the current playlist from the renderer?

Absolutely great app though. Keep up the good work.

Thanks,

Iain
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua1ung:
Thanks for pointing me/us to Skifta (though, I agree, you could've done it in a more gentle manner). Otherwise, Skifta is awesome indeed, and works very well remotely without needing to install extra server applications or whatever (you do need to subscribe to their website, though that's certainly much less challenging than installing the BubbleUPnP server piece on a generic Linux box (good luck with that)). Otherwise, there are some perks to BubbleUPnP that Skifta has yet to acquire, among them the fact that BubbleUPnP works much smoother on GoogleTV (Revue), whereas Skifta still struggles.

Here's, finally, a suggestion for BubbleUPnP's devs.: while BubbleUPnP has not been advertised as having been designed with GoogleTV (Honeycomb) in mind, and while it works admirably smooth in such an environment, it still needs some nips and tucks here and there. I'd, hence, love to see a li'l bit of dev. effort focused on GoogleTV, especially as it looks as if it'll flood the market in 2012.
[Android Apps and Games] MikeyAThomas:
Hi Bubbleguuum,

A couple of small issues. Earlier messages have mentioned that the volume control is missing from landscape mode. Would be nice to get this back. (Or, at least update the settings so that volume slider cannot be chosen for landscape).

Other small issue is the search. I can find artists or albums but doesn't find tracks. Is this an issue with the control point or the UPnP server? FYI, I'm using foobar2000 and your UPnP foobar2000 plug-in as the (music) media server.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you want to access your Home media with Skifta through the Internet you *have to* to install their server software (and register online). It cannot magically make your home media available online without having some custom server software running on your LAN.

BubbleUPnP Server works with *all* existing Media Servers, bringing them online with security and bandwidth optimizations.

Any particular suggestions ? I know that dpad focus needs some work but I'm not sure if dpad is often used for navigation.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I will have to think about it for the release after 1.3.0

I don't think track title search is implemented in foo_upnp
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
For the tablet to "passively" display track info / album art from an external renderer that it doesn't control, I think the Playlist must be empty. Otherwise the app displays the selected item in the Playlist.

That's a known shortcoming of UPnP AV: no shared playlist between controllers connected to the same renderer. It is possible that I add this functionality at some point but it will require BubbleUPnP Server (to hold the playlist and do track advance).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 1.3.0 final is available on the Market

New Local Media Server allows to play your phone/tablet music, images and videos to renderers. It can be accessed by other devices on the LAN (PS3, WMP, ...) and configured in Settings > Local Media Server

BubbleUPnP can now run without any network connection and used as a standalone player (using the local renderer and local Media Server)

fixed timeout with WMP accessed through Internet

fixed track technical info sometimes not updated in Now Playing

fixed WDTV not playing MKV, MP4

fixed tracks sometimes failing to play from WMP to renderer

fixed Local Renderer not accepting images

fixed Local Renderer not playing FLAC with embedded pictures

added Clear button in Remote Network settings page to reset/remove entry

Library: use server returned folder thumbnail image if present, for non-album folders

various fixes
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP Server 0.4 is available:

fixed 100% usage of 1 CPU core when serving files

fixed proxy devices not browsable by some Control Points

fixed PS3 Media Server not browsable beyond its root folder

remove unresponding Media Servers from list that failed to notify their disappearance (can be disabled with discoveryMaintenanceInterval=0 in conf file)

increased timeouts for WMP

smaller fixes
[Android Apps and Games] LichP:
I've installed BubbleUPnP (free version) on my Transformer Prime (running ICS), however it doesn't find the UPnP media server on my network. Two other apps are able to find it and browse it (UPnPlayer and MyNet), so I know the tablet can definitely see the server. Any ideas as to why BubbleUPnP wouldn't be able to see it?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Record and send a log as explained in the first post of that topic and I'll have a look.

Thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] LichP:
Hi Bubbleguuum,

Thanks for the speedy response :-) I turned on the logging, and tracked the problem to a bug in the server which I've now fixed, and BubbleUPnP is now picking it up fine, so false alarm ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] wideasleep1:
Reinstall Java.
[Android Apps and Games] gwapenut:
Yes I tried reinstalling, also tried rolling back to an earlier version, nothing works.

Luckily I remembered that I backed up my entire installation 6 months ago and changed virtually nothing since, so I'm unpacking that onto the memory stick. The archlinux rollback machine does not work for the pogoplug, wrong architecture I think.

Would love to know what's gone wrong, but hopefully a restore will sort out my immediate problem and then I can try the newer bubbleupnp again as that did work before the system upgrade .... roll on gapless dark side of the moon!
[Android Apps and Games] david.skx:
BubbleUPNP not indexing all my foles on networl

hi there,

I got the problem that BubbleUPNP is not indexing all my files. Please see the attached screenshot. My folder "movies" is listed perfectly normal. In my mp3 folder i have the subgenre "Hardcore" under which it just lists (null) and a dozen times "Drive...." which is not in this folder but in "movies". May this be cause I have a cpuple folders unter "hardcore" named "# oldschool" ... Starting with a "#" ? I dont know what to do.

Thx!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 1.8.3 will be shortly available on Google Play.

BubbleUPnP Server is updated to v0.8.2.

All the details in this post.

.
[Android Apps and Games] nemo427:
feature request - rename "renderers" to "players"

Hello, I would love to see the option to rename "renderers" to "players." This would make the app very friendly to non-techies in my house. :D Great app, Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Thanks! Too bad I'm at work, later will try to see if I can now transcode videos to Chromecast from a server on a different LAN subnet than the Chromecast (and my phone)... didn't see any mention of that in the g+ post.

As I mentioned earlier I consider it a bug because the same videos get transcoded across the same pair of subnets when the renderer is local.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It should provided you connect to BubbleUPNP Server with a LAN ip (eg 192.168.x.x). It is not mentionned because it is super obscure.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Does it work with all private subnets? Officially all of these are:

10/8

172.16/12

192.168/16

Thanks again! Although I'm sure there must be other people that do subnetting or VLANs in their home network so I would add a line to your G+ post, it should not be THAT obscure. :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes it works with all private subnets.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
I am a paid user of BubbleUPnP for a couple years now but your awesome support never stops to amaze me! Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] S.AMU:
I bought you app, because it is just an really big "tool-box".

But now I ran into an Problem. When i try to stream music to the Samsung-TV it is always repeating the track and not advancing to the next one in the Playlist. I have to press manually the "next Track" button to change it.

Of course the "repeat track" option is disabled. I also tried to disable "gapless control" in the settings, but it doesn't make any effect.

Can someone help me? Because the main function of bubble would be to stream to the TV...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Check if there is no repeat toggle enabled on the TV.

Otherwise try reinstalling the app.
[Android Apps and Games] sourbob:
Hiya. I'm a huge fan of the Bubble UPNP app and am now trying to go one step further and get the server working too. I'm tripped up right at the beginning though, and 580 pages of thread is a mother to sift through.

Can someone point me to some resources on troubleshooting for when you fail the internet connectivity test? I've tried setting up a rule on my router and on my firewall, but I'm getting an: "ERROR: cannot reach external server to perform test: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out" message. Surely this has been covered before, so maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] david.skx:
Transcoding files using raspberry pi

I installed bubbleupnp on my raspberry pi using a valid version of ffmpeg. but trancoding of file doesnt work for either video or audio.

f.e. when playing an audio file the log file states:

proxy stream request /stream/audio/f59a0ca7441c2d1b7b076ff384663f66.mp3 => //192.168.1.1:8200/MediaItems/15971.mp3

Chromecast shows the Artist and Title and a loading indicator but nothing happens.

Whats wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] kenkiller:
Anyone got the update to the app already?
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
fix for custom user in /etc/init/bubbleupnpserver.conf

Hi,

even though I set a custom user in /etc/default/bubbleupnpserver I noticed the process did not honor it, because of the "su" line being commented out in /etc/init/bubbleupnpserver.conf

Can you change it to the following (I added if/else statement) so it works both ways without modification ?

if [ "$USER" != "" -a "$USER" != "root" ]; then
exec su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' ${USER} -- ${COMMAND} ${OPTS}
else
exec ${COMMAND} ${OPTS}
fi

On a different note, I don't see the BubbleUPnP update in the Play Store. It is still dated March 9.
[Android Apps and Games] whispersatthegate:
Okay, solved my own problem (from a couple of pages back - long playlists failing to save).

I think it was to do with not enough storage space where Bubbleupnp was trying to store the playlist. I switched the default write disk to SD storage (in android settings), and now it saves.

Might I suggest that when failing to save a playlist, an error message like "SD card not mounted ?" is not that helpful when it's the amount of space that is the problem, and the app is already getting it's music off the SD card?

I actually have another playlist issue now: If I add all music to the playlist (selecting all artists to play in library) I get a load of stuff I don't want, like voice recorder files etc. So I added a custom mount point under the local media server/filesystem settings, and selected to play all of that instead. This adds all the music and nothing else (which is good), but in the playlist, some music comes up as unknown artist and unknown album. But the app obviously knows the artist name, as it has sorted everything alphabetically by artist name and these files are in the right place in the list.

Is this a bug of some kind?
[Android Apps and Games] mhagnumdw:
No.

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MhagnumDw
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There is a problem with Google Play not wanting to update to the new versions I upload.

So it is not available yet.
[Android Apps and Games] S.AMU:
Thank you!

The repeat toggle was set to "repeat whole playlist" but because the TV is only seeing song after song, he repeated tho song.

Sometimes the simplest things are the things which solve the problems :)
[Android Apps and Games] brian_lewis67:
Forgot to post an update on my issue. I ended up rebuilding the NAS server and it can now see both drives and BubbleUPnP is working flawlessly.

Thanks.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Got the update finally, actually 2 of them, one with the old icon, then an hour later one with the new yellow icon! Nice.

BTW hope you saw my suggestion for that shell script.
[Android Apps and Games] jowadmax:
Subtitles encoding?

Quick question; what does it mean when I have:

"AbstractRenderer : discarding unsupported mime-type: text/srt" in my log.txt?

Means my subtitle has not been parsed? or wrong encoding? fix?

Thank :good:
[Android Apps and Games] juliatan:
Love the app. The best by far in its category. Good looking UI, user friendly and great options. Use it the most for streaming to dlna and playing music from cloud-providers to local (and still then miss completing home-cloud smb-integration...)

But to get one thing of my chest: new app-icon is the very contrary of my taste. Perhaps I liked the old icon too much.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 (2013) met Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] GROGG88:
I will counter the changed icon opinion. I prefer the new one (not like it changes any functionality).
[Android Apps and Games] fox-0:
Did someone get BubbleUPnPServer to work on Debian with Chromecast? Getting only video (when transcoding) on Debian when i cast to my chromecast and im not sure what the problem is. Windows/Ubuntu runs fine with video and audio.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Maybe try different versions/builds of ffmpeg ?
[Android Apps and Games] fox-0:
Used the newest i could find. Same result video runs fine but no audio. ;(
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Is ffmpeg compiled with mp3 support (libmp3lame) ?

Also, a fairly recent version of ffmpeg is required (> 1.0).

Yiou can see if ffmpeg is failing by looking at the server log (BubbleUPNPServer.log.0)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is a benign warning that you can ignore. It doesn't prevents subs sent by your media server to be detected and used when appropriate.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes I will do something about it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok.

Browsing the filesystem does not load all the possible metadata, for performance reasons.

It is better that you use the Music folders if possible. To prevent the media scanner from indexing unwanted media files, create an empty .nomedia file in their folder, then reboot or trigger a rescan with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uberullu.rescansd.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Send me the full log file at bubbleguuum@free.fr
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Thanks. And I just confirmed the different-subnet bug is indeed fixed! Transcoding to the chromecast works perfectly in my setup now.
[Android Apps and Games] jangi:
Feature requests

First let me say this app is great; I've already bought it twice. There are a few things (IMHO) that could make it even better though:

1) Customizable skip back/forward buttons on the Now Playing screen. Using the slider to skip commercials is an exercise in dexterity. Having a button that would instantly skip ~30 seconds (whose value could be changed in settings) would be great.

2) Maybe a "goto" button that asks for a specific timecode to skip to would be good as well.

2) The ability to change scaling on the fly. For example, I'm watching a 4:3 mpeg2 TS being transcoded by Bubble/ffmpeg on my 16:9 TV via Chromecast. It would be great to have an option to stretch the video. Another example that occurs all the time is also a 4:3 recording but it has 16:9 letterbox inside so you end up with a "postage stamp" effect. Ffmpeg can easily correct both of these (and other) scaling issues. I think a popup menu with various scaling options would work nicely. Choosing the option you want would restart the stream at the current timecode.

4) It seems that the Advanced->Video encoding quality option in the web UI of the server is not applied. I thought I was going crazy until I realized I needed to choose the quality in the Chromecast settings on my mobile device. It doesn't really bother me using the phone to change the setting, but it should be global since the CPU is on the server not the phone. Since I have three phones and two tablets I have to manage this setting five times.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. long-press the prev/next button skip by -+30s, although it is not configurable. That doesn't work too well with Chromecast transcodes for tecnical reasons.

2. I can see how this could be useful but no promise

3. Interesting but again no promise

4. You are right, the setting should be modifiable on phone but remembered server-side to avoid having to set it several times. The setting in the web ui is only used for Internet transcoding and I can see how it can be confusing.
[Android Apps and Games] jangi:
Thanks for the response!

1) Glad I asked... I'll give that a shot. By "not work too well" do you just mean inaccurate? I would assume it works as well as moving the slider around.

2+3) Just food for thought, thanks for considering.