Configuring radio streams with minimwatch

[simoncn]

(20-09-2014 13:45)Santelises Wrote:  Simon,
I was transcoding MP3 to Wav24 with my settings. It seems like if you do the OPPO will not play the mp3 stations. For a test I also attempted to transcode aac to wav24 and sure enough my BBC3 station stopped working. Once I removed transcoding for mp3 and aac many stations are now working.

The OPPO is unable to play radio streams with WAV (or wav24) transcoding. This is because it attempts to seek within the WAV stream, which isn't possible with live radio.

Quote:It seems like if the radio station url points to an m3u file will not play, but maybe that is because I am not currently specifying type. I am able to get around that by finding the actual url for streaming the station. I am not sure if this is the expected behavior, but for my situation I am willing to give up transcoding to get them to work.

This should be OK if you specify the correct stream type as follows:

#EXTINF:-1,[*AVRO;mp3] AVRO Baroque Around the Clock
http://icecast.omroep.nl/radio4-baroque-bb-mp3

With this setting, the stream should play with no transcoding, L16 transcoding or L24 transcoding.

Quote:I also see errors in the log, as an example (MinimServer: incorrect format for container ID '0$playlists$*p5/[AVRO] AVRO Baroque Around the Clock' I get this for all of my stations, however, they seem to work anyway.

I am not seeing this problem. It might be caused by your control point. Which control point are you using?