BBC Radio streaming to Google cast devices

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(19-10-2021 14:43)simoncn Wrote:  By "natively" do you mean without MinimStreamer? This would require the renderer to handle HLS or MPEG-DASH decoding.

Yes, handled directly by the device rather than transcoded.
They do support HLS/MPEG-DASH, but I've just found this which I think means that the control point would need to do the work - although BubbleUPnP can't stream MPEG-DASH itself at the moment!

(19-10-2021 14:43)simoncn Wrote:  How did you run your test that worked for 20 seconds? What renderer and control point were you using and what was in your .m3u playlist?

With the MPEG-DASH streams I used:

Code:

#EXTINF:-1, BBC Radio 1
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/dash/uk/dash_full/ak/bbc_radio_one.mpd
#EXTINF:-1, [;aac;48000]
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/dash/uk/dash_full/ak/bbc_radio_one.mpd

I played to a Google Nest Audio speaker, using BubbleUPnP.

(19-10-2021 14:43)simoncn Wrote:  I am not sure whether I have any devices that support Google cast. Can you give examples of such devices?

All the google assistant speakers use it, but it's getting integrated into more higher end network streamers/speakers as well e.g. KEF LS50's, Naim ND 555 e.t.c