bpa wrote: 
> There is no full URL inside the m3u8 playlist but it generates a file
> which concatenated with playlist URL - gives an URL that can be played.
> But AFAICT it can only be "played once" and then it becomes invalid -
> LMS looks at an URL twice (initially to check the format and then
> secondly to tell player to play it)  and I think this is breaking the
> URL as URL is invalid on the second attempt.  
> 
> What a weird setup and some sort of lame attempt at protection or
> preventing something which I can't figure out.
> 
> I think another problem is that it is not streamed http/AAC but in fact
> it is a MPEG4 Podcast with an AAC audio component and possibly a dash of
> Apple proprietary streaming  (its MIME is application/vnd.apple.mpegurl)
> . MPEG4 podcast need a LMS as they are not v. streaming friendly - they
> really expect to be downloaded where the play can then seek up and down
> the file to find headers.  My guess I think VLC downloads most fo the
> file before it starts

Thanks for the info. So does that mean that this stream would trip up
all internet radio devices? It's a shame because it's a good quality
stream that I would like to be able to hear on the hi-fi system.

Here's another one, one of the stations of the Turkish Public
broadcaster TRT:

http://sol.trtcdn.com/rd/trtfm/playlist.m3u8

Is this the same sort of problem?

I find listening to other countries PSB services very interesting and
it's a pity that they use odd implementations that trip up devices like
the Squeezebox.

Regards,
Nick


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