gasteropod wrote: 
> This seems to be an HDS stream rather than the earlier quoted HLS
> streams which VLC can play. It looks like VLC cannot handle HDS
> natively.
> 
> I think ffmpeg can handle both HLS and HDS (maybe with a patch), so
> someone more familiar with LMS may be able to create entries in
> custom-convert.conf to use ffmpeg to convert these to flac to allow them
> to be played on a squeezebox.

There is more to the this than just altering a conf file as LMS will get
the Mime from the http URL and IIRC it is ambiguous and if set up
wrongly may break playing other non HLS http streams.

I did a hack job of a plugin for HLS / m3u8 about 2 yrs ago and it was
revived last Aug   see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97542-Any-ideas-why-this-stream-won-t-play&p=728964&viewfull=1#post728964

I'll look at the BBC streams over the weekend if this is still a live
issue.  Since BBC will be changing to DASH soon there is little point in
putting much effort into this.


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