mcoste wrote: > BTW, does HLS provide benefits beyond aac or mp3? I hadn't come across > it until I used your GREAT plugin Paul These comment are HLS generic and not FIP specific.
I think FIP just uses HLS as another broadcast format. HLS was initially an Apple implementation of "chunked http", but now an RFC and with multiple versions of varying complexity. AFAICT A lot of stations implement HLS to get better compliance with Apple devices. HLS is a transport protocol - it is not concerned with codecs. Often station use the *exact* same audio stream in the normal http and HLS streams. Technically, the main benefit of DASH/HLS (i.e. chunked http) is that the broadcaster can vary the bitrate of the stream according to feedback from the player regarding the available bandwidth. This has been used by video streaming (e.g. Netflix - quality varies according to available bandwidth rather than stop & rebuffer) but I haven't come across many broadcaster who implement it for audio. PlayHLS does not support varying the bitrate dynamically. HLS also has defined more standardised & flexible methods for metadata (e.g. ID3, fragmented MPEG4) rather than icy which is limited. IIR FIP does not use the HLS metadata capabilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106900 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
