bpa wrote: > I agree HLS and HDS are here to stay. On PC based browser the Listen > Again and live stream are HDS format stream played via a flash player. > > As I see it the problem with doing HLS is that LMS protocol handling is > not set up to open and close http URL every 6 secs. It adds complexity > and a level of unknown within LMS single thread. > > My initial step would be to implement > 1. a LMS M3U8 Playlist handler so that codec and speed can be extracted > for display. > 2. Implement a Standalone Perl transcoder which strips HLS and MPEGS > leaving AAC/MP3 audio stream. This is simple to implement and most > platform will have Perl. Windows is the problem with this approach as > LMS is installed as a exe not as Perl with source files.. > 3. I'm not sure about the handling of seek within stream (i.e. ffw/rew) > - existing methods may work. > > Time is the problem for me - I cannot predict when I would the time to > implement a transcoder.
What PC browser have you seen HDS format used for Listen Again? From what I've seen so far, Listen Again in Chrome is using Flash/RTMP still. It seemed to me that RTMP is currently the only route to the 320kbps Listen Again streams since they've stopped providing 320kbps HLS Listen Again options. Maybe the HLS ones will come back again eventually when things settle out. At the moment it's not clear to me whether HLS or HDS is the preferred option to invest the time in (or just wait for DASH). I still have my own C 'transcoder' implementation of HLS (with seek), and I've been adding HDS as well. By keeping this as standalone code without pulling in any other 3rd party libraries, I've got 32-bit static linked binaries (including libc) that seem to be ok for all flavours of 32/64 bit windows, x86 and arm linux that I've been able to try - maybe I can do OSX as well if I spend 1$ renting an on-line mac to compile. Still not sure if this is a sensible way forward... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
