BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[DavidHB]

(28-07-2017 23:30)simoncn Wrote:  

(28-07-2017 22:50)DavidHB Wrote:  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.

Yes, I am saying that. A further possible complication is that different BBC programmes seem to be transmitted with different forms of FLAC encoding.

Thank you very much for that. Thoughts about different server configurations clearly ought to be put on hold; apologies for the red herring. I shall put a bug report on the Linn development forum.

(28-07-2017 23:30)simoncn Wrote:  

(28-07-2017 22:50)DavidHB Wrote:  ... 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?

It might be because MinimStreamer is sending an HTTP 200 response rather than an HTTP 206 response with Content-Range. There was a discussion on the Linn forum about this (see this thread).

Thank you for this too. I was not aware of that thread, which goes back before my time on the Linn forum. It does appear that the HTTP 200 vs. HTTP206 issue now arises in circumstances in which Linn ought to dig it out of the 'to do' pile.

LATER: I have now reported the issues on the Linn forum, with a cross-reference to this thread.

David