BBC radio streams not working

[Pastim]

(04-03-2015 23:15)simoncn Wrote:  

(04-03-2015 23:08)Pastim Wrote:  I'll have to sleep on this. It is clearly obvious to you, but there must be something fundamental I am missing. Why is the CP making a choice, or Minimstreamer making a choice? The user guide says (I believe) that if the original source codec is unknown (and therefore being matched with * in the transcode setting) it's MinimStreamer making the choice, so why isn't it the same for both UPnP and Internet Radio?

When the source codec is known (by specifying ;aac) I can just about understand that the CP picks the 1st one (since the 'unknown' rule does not apply), but where it's Internet Radio there is no CP so MinimStreamer picks the default with the ^.

I'm pretty sure that some of my puzzlement is because you see something obvious in the difference between Internet Radio and UPnP that I don't, because I don't understand the technology. I tend to think that if the mechanisms really are that different it's always going to be hard for me to tease out what the transcode settings actually mean in every case when all are specified in one place but mean rather different things. I probably need a flow chart to work it out.

It is much simpler than you appear to be thinking.

The UPnP control point gets two stream URLs (#1 and #2) and chooses #1 unless it has a reason not to do that.

The internet radio gets one stream URL (#2) so it has to choose that URL because it doesn't know about the other one.

URL #1 plays the stream with transcoding. URL #2 plays the stream without transcoding because of the ^.

But that's not what the user guide says is it? Have I misread it? You state "Note: For a network stream whose original type is unspecified, the choice of output type is made by MinimStreamer (not the control point) when MinimServer opens the stream and discovers its type." So MinimStreamer makes the choice, and not the CP. What am I missing?