Transcoding HLS streams

[simoncn]

(25-02-2015 19:21)davidp Wrote:  Hi

I've been following the BBC Radio3 HD saga closely. I have tried to use Minimstreamer to transcode the new BBC HLS streams for either my Cambridge Audio NP30 or Stream Magic 6 players. I have successfully followed the instructions on your UPnP page but both players report No Media. I have the stream.converter tag set for ffmpeg (I use an ARM QNAP TS-412) and have tried both *:wav and *:L16 with no luck.

I've no idea if this is a Minimstreamer issue (doubt it), a Cambridge Audio issue or a QNAP/ffmpeg issue. I've tried making sense of the QNAP forum which simply seems to suggest that the latest ARM QNAPs don't have ffmpeg and that installing it eats precious CPU.

Advice welcome.
David

To the best of my knowledge, all QNAPs have ffmpeg preinstalled and it should run acceptably on the TS-412.

The issue is almost certainly related to the player. I have had reports of similar problems from other NP30 users. These appear to be caused by the player sending byte-range requests to MinimStreamer, which don't work when playing a real-time radio stream.. I'm not sure about the Stream Magic 6 but it might have the same issue.

Do you have an Android device? If so, you could try playing the transcoded L16 stream using the BubbleUPnP local renderer. This would confirm that your MinimStreamer and ffmpeg setup is correct.