BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[DavidHB]

(28-07-2017 13:49)euphonia Wrote:  Well, it's working for me, at the moment at least, although at first Kazoo kept selecting the AAC 320 kbps R3 stream. Streaming to a Linn Majik DS, Davaar 4.56.177, no transcoding. Kazoo reports: [R3DASH] BBC Radio 3 lossless FLAC 48kHz/16 bits 1536 kbps. Very impressive, thank you Simon.

Well, that's a surprise, and very interesting. I'm on the same Davaar version, and that cannot be very different on your MDS from my ADSM. So perhaps I was wrong to blame the Linn firmware.

I'm trying to puzzle out what might be different between your setup and mine. Assuming that MinimServer and MinimStreamer are up to date on your system, as they are here, can I ask which platform you are running them on? I have been using the installation on my QNAP TS-131. IIRC, there are differences between FFMPEG versions on different platforms, so there may be an issue to look at there.

Are you using any transcoding settings? I have have been experimenting without transcoding. Whether using the DSM or the OpenHome player on my computer, Kazoo recognises that the R3DASH stream is of CD quality, as it is shown as such in the library listing. With the OpenHome, the player stalls for a while when R3DASH is selected (your buffering?), then reverts to the standard R3 stream if that is in the playlist. Behaviour on the DSM is similar, except that there is no reversion - the player is stalled until the user intervenes (there may be a much longer timeout, but I didn't wait).

David