Car gateway

[Michel Lopez]

By looking more closely to the transcoding process, I understood that it seems to be a header/url conversion only, by default for mp3 streams. So I tried to force some sort of actual stream conversion. To do so I installed the avconv package and tried to experiment with the settings.

Since I could not find a way to force the transcoding from mp3 to mp3, I tried with the transcoding of an aac radio stream converted to mp3 to the car player. (of course this setup does work ok with windows Media player)

To do so, I created a 'Test aac.m3u' playlist:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:300,[T3;mp3] Test AAC
http://air.radiorecord.ru:80/rr_aac

I updated the stream/converter field with avconv and the stream.transcode with aac:mp3

From the attached debug log, I can see that everything seems to maybe start ok, but i am wondering if the beginning of the transfer process could be incomplete before the timeout (timeout has value '2000') and closed too early. Is there a way to experiment this with some greater values for some of of the timeout options ?

Thanks

-Michel