Owen Smith wrote: 
> Have people seen this FLAC trial for Radio 3:
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/radio-3-concert-sound/inside-story
> 
> It uses Dash. How easy or hard would be it to add his to the Dash
> iPlayer plugin?

The test stream is at 
https://vs-dash-ww-rd-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/al/lossless/client_manifest.mpd

Not sure if it will ourtside the UK and whether ti will work as a http
not https.

If they did it properly - it could be easy.  If they hacked it will be
very hard.  It looks like a bit of a hack - encapsulating Flac in MP4
and then saying mime is "audio/mp4" which it isn't but relying on the
MPD to override the codecs - it'll be messy to get it working.

There is no standard for this as BBC has noted.
> The main challenge was finding a standards-based approach to delivering
> lossless audio to the browser. Following discussions with technology
> partners such as internet radio vendors, it was clear that FLAC would be
> the preferred compression method, but, at the time, *there was no
> specification describing carriage of FLAC in MP4 for MPEG-DASH* During
> discussions around other technologies, Mozilla and the Xiph.org
> Foundation offered to standardise encapsulation in MP4, and this was
> published on 1st January 2017.


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