BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[simoncn]

(28-07-2017 21:13)DavidHB Wrote:  The difference between those who find that the R3DASH stream works with Linn DS/DSMs and those who don't seems to be a function of which server platform they are using, and possibly therefore (I am guessing here) whether that platform has a relevant codec installed that MinimStreamer/FFMPEG can make use of. Actually what is needed is more than just the codec; it is a combination of the ability to use the MPEG-DASH (variable bit rate) streaming technique, plus the variant of FLAC in which the BBC stream is encoded (Cebolla's explanation at post #15 above refers).

How those capabilities happen to be installed on one platform and not on another I don't know. As I understand it, MPEG-DASH is more commonly associated with video codecs, but, as it is codec neutral, it can be used with audio codecs (FLAC in this case) as well.

David

MinimStreamer doesn't use FFmpeg for any MPEG-DASH processing. It does all the processing for this itself. The only use of FFmpeg is to transcode FLAC to WAV if this is specified in the stream.transcode property. It is possible that different versions of FFmpeg might differ in how well they can handle the unusual mid/side BBC variant of FLAC encoding.