BBC radio streams not working

[PhilD]

(20-02-2015 00:10)simoncn Wrote:  

(19-02-2015 23:46)PhilD Wrote:  I wanted to report that the newest approach is working on my Roberts Stream 83i in 'Internet Radio' mode, making a much more elegant solution than anything else I've found. To achieve this I added the custom url to the Frontier Silicon Radio Portal website. Unfortunately custom streams on the portal don't offer AAC as a stream type but the mp3 option seems to work fine.

On a separate note, I had MinimServer/Streamer/Radio running on a raspberryPi B+ with raspbian but encountered dropouts when multiple clients were accessing the same radio stream. I've now installed everything on a spare net-top and all seems to be running well without dropouts.

Is it reasonable that the pi ran out of grunt with multiple clients accessing the same stream?

Thanks for the hard work and for offering such a neat solution to the BBC's mess.

Phil

I will try this on the Pi. Did you have any transcoding enabled or were the clients using the AAC ADTS stream? How many clients were there?

No, I didn't use encoding. The two clients were the Roberts i83 and Logitech Media Server (acting as a radio streamer). The raspbian was a fresh install with the updated version of ffmpeg installed as described in this post LMS forums.

Thanks again for all your efforts!

Phil