psketch wrote: > Yes, i do get a few seconds - 4 or 5 - of playback, then nothing.... > > Any ideas of anything to try - seems like under certain undefined > conditions, something goes awry at present. BTW, in answer to another > question, it only seems to be the live streams affected - on demand and > iPlayerExtra both seem to work fine. I wonder if it's worth stepping back briefly and making sure what your system is, what works and what doesn't. This is just random imaginings, so please ignore if I'm off-beam.
As I understand it: - your LMS is on a Windows VM in Microsoft's Azure Cloud, which reports that it is Dublin so is 'non-UK' - you can use squeezelite locally in the UK (I assume) to some local audio device and that works in all cases - squeezelite supports aac natively - you have some other SB devices (sorry I forget which), again in the UK, which are older - they do not support aac natively and so faad is used to transcode - on the latter devices, all on demand streams work (including using faad), but live plays for a few seconds and then stops - prior to the new plugins (and hence prior to HLS and the BBC's new non-UK rules) it all worked OK So what's different between the iPlayer Plugin Live and On Demand, given that everything else is much the same, including the use of HLS, aac and faad? Well one thing is that the live service is location dependent. When I initially tried to use MySqueezebox.com direct to my Touch Radio in the UK I couldn't get it to work because it was deemed to be a foreign source. Before I was told a possible fix for this (adding #noslim=1 to the URLs) I seem to recall I got a short burst of sound and then nothing, as if I was being cut off (but note that this may be a false memory - I have several such!). Nonetheless yours is, as far as I know, the only reported case of this behaviour, so I wonder if something about the cloud-based nature of your system is upsetting the CDNs/BBC and causing them to cut you off. Could there be some confusion about IP locations between the cloud and your local systems? Is everything being reported to the CDNs/BBC coming from a Dublin IP, or is there a mix including your UK IP address? Could squeezelite be working because it isn't doing something that your players are doing? Random thoughts - sorry :) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Minimserver (server) & upplay (control point) to same renderers & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to speakers/phones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop with firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. Have a Touch with EDO, and a spare, but don't use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
