amcluesent;437335 Wrote:
is there any easy way to stream the AAC live radio feed into
Squeezecenter...
Nope. This is bleeding edge stuff, hence I posted to see if the crew
who did AlienBBC could make the last jump from mplayer into
SqueezeCenter.
I've got an experimental get_iplayer PVR
is there any easy way to stream the AAC live radio feed into
Squeezecenter...
Nope. This is bleeding edge stuff, hence I posted to see if the crew
who did AlienBBC could make the last jump from mplayer into
SqueezeCenter.
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amcluesent
What is the advantages of using the AAC stream vs WMA ?
The AAC stream would requires SC to transcode vs a WMA stream which can
be played natively and so no need for transcoding (i.e. use SN or a
small NAS)
AAC listen again using flvstream would have no FFW / REW so why is it
better than MP3 ?
bpa;437336 Wrote:
What is the advantages of using the AAC stream vs WMA ?
The BBC radio AAC streams are at higher bitrates (for live programs)
than the WMA streams should give better sound quality.
Phileas
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Phileas
My understanding (as indicated by various websites) is that the UK
bitrate for WMA streams are now the same as the Flash/AAC and Flash/MP3
streams. I can't access these streams so I would expect a user to test
and confirm/refute this as this was a recent change.
should give better sound
The issue is whether there is discernible quality difference between
for example, Radio3 WMA at 192kbit/sec and AAC at 192kbit/sec
Radio 3 is streamed at 128kbit WMA, at least now from a clean feed. The
iPlayer feeds are 192kbit AAC, that's a world of difference!
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amcluesent
Yes it looks like the aac feeds are higher bitrates. We need to lobby
the bbc to make the aac feeds available natively so players such as
squeezeboxes can use them...
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Triode
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amcluesent;436222 Wrote:
Some interesting work being done here -
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation/#Live%20Streaming with
streams going into mplayer. As per AlienBBC, from mplayer should be
possible to get into SqueezeCenter
flvstreamer seems to be the key program to handle
I see that the BBC live iPlayer radio streams have changed to AAC:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/2009/06/bbc_aac_internet_streams_outclass_dab.php
The current iPlayer plugin is only (apparently) playing the old, lower
bit-rate, WMA streams.
Am I correct and does anyone know if the iPlayer
The AAC streams are currently only available via flash which means they
only work from a web browser. The iPlayer plugin supports the best
quality streams currently available for internet radio devices.
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Triode
Yes, thanks Triode. I've just been reading some comments on the BBC labs
radio blog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/06/better_sound_for_bbc_radio.html
It's a shame. I'm thinking about Radio 3, but I can't really claim to
listen to the radio with the same concentration I listen to my
Some interesting work being done here -
http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/documentation/#Live%20Streaming
flvstreamer seems to be the key program to handle RTSP streams.
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