BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[DavidHB]

(28-07-2017 22:24)simoncn Wrote:  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.

Thanks, Simon. This is helpful, I think.

As you see, I'm trying to discover why different Linn players running the current firmware are behaving differently. The most obvious differences between the systems seem to be on the server side, but I think you are suggesting that they may not be relevant. Are you saying that, if transcoding is not specified, the FLAC stream is sent to the DS 'as is', that is with the unusual encoding? This would imply that some players are handling the stream correctly, and some are not. If this is the case, we need to file a bug report with Linn sooner rather than later.

On a separate issue, have you any thoughts as to why even the standard BBC streams do not play on my ADSM when they are transcoded to WAV24? Could this be an issue with FFMPEG?

David