BBC radio streams not working

[Pastim]

(04-03-2015 20:15)simoncn Wrote:  

(04-03-2015 18:28)Pastim Wrote:  That makes my brain hurt a little. I think it says:

"For an unknown codec default to the original codec, else use wav24"

No, it is telling MinimServer/MinimStreamer to create two resource URLs. Resource #1 is a transcoded stream and resource #2 is the untranscoded original stream. The ^ on resource #2 tells MinimStreamer to use this stream for the radio-style short URL. When playing the stream using UPnP, the control point will use resource #1 because it's first in the list.

Quote:Surely everything will end up with the original?

If my bbc m3u file has ;aac specified then this will presumably not work,a dn would have to be aac:wav24/-^, but surely everything just ends up as aac in that case?

Yes, you would need to use aac:wav24/-^ in this case. I've tried it and it works.

When I read the user guide it says "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. By default, MinimStreamer chooses the first output type in the list. You can override this default choice by adding a ^ (caret) character after the output type that you want MinimStreamer to choose. For example, the transcoding combination aac:L16/wav24^ tells MinimStreamer to choose wav24 if it discovers that the network stream type is AAC."

Sorry, I'm must be being very thick but I cannot make any sense of this versus what you have told me, and I'm not good at using a setting I can't comprehend (not least because when I look at it in 6 months time I'll need to be able to understand it). The description states that MinimStreamer makes the choice, not the CP. You talk about short URLs, but I'm not sure what you are referring to.

Unfortunately it's not easy for me to know the result of a test because neither of my renderers tells me the type of stream it is receiving.

So I am clearly missing something fundamental.

Sorry.