1. The BBC have a bug in their system which is resulting in occasional programs not being recorded. I think this is one instance and not an indication that BBC is treating RealAudio as 2nd Class service. See 1st Aug blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/08/bbc_iplayer_radio_radio_3_prog.html
2. The BBC are moving away from RealAudio to better quality secure MP3 and eventually AAC+. The MP3 streams are UK onlyand they are MP3 audio encoding but a Flash proprietary transport and possibly encrpytion. AFAICT the only player is available from Adobe - there has been no incentive to reverse engineer. To play theMP3 stream through squeezecenter requires the following: 1. If user is not UK based - a UK proxy to handle a subset of bbc.co.uk addresses. This probably violates terms of use with BBC. 2. A copy of mozilla plugin for Flashplayer for your platform 3. A mozilla Plugin wrapper which can be used to set up stream decode and direct to a false audio output which can be captured. Currently the only wrapper (NSPLUGINWRAPPER) that could work is only available on Linux using ALSA. This will violate Adobe terms of use. Given the restrictions and the breaches in terms of use, I feel a solution cannot be provided publicly and so it is not worthwhile persuing this approach. As BBC says RealAudio will still be provided - AlienBBC will have to stay with this format. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49830 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
