BBC radio streams not working

[simoncn]

(04-03-2015 22:11)Pastim Wrote:  When I read the user guide it says "For a network stream whose original type is unspecified, the choice of output type is made by MinimStreamer (not the control point) when MinimServer opens the stream and discovers its type. By default, MinimStreamer chooses the first output type in the list. You can override this default choice by adding a ^ (caret) character after the output type that you want MinimStreamer to choose. For example, the transcoding combination aac:L16/wav24^ tells MinimStreamer to choose wav24 if it discovers that the network stream type is AAC."

Sorry, I'm must be being very thick but I cannot make any sense of this versus what you have told me, and I'm not good at using a setting I can't comprehend (not least because when I look at it in 6 months time I'll need to be able to understand it). The description states that MinimStreamer makes the choice, not the CP. You talk about short URLs, but I'm not sure what you are referring to.

Unfortunately it's not easy for me to know the result of a test because neither of my renderers tells me the type of stream it is receiving.

So I am clearly missing something fundamental.

Sorry.

The control point is choosing the first stream by default. This is what it is supposed to do unless it finds that the first stream is incompatible with the renderer.

MinimStreamer also chooses the first stream by default unless there is a caret marker for one of the streams. In this case, the caret is on the second stream, so MinimStreamer chooses the second stream when a URL of the form

http://x.x.x.x:9790/minimstreamer/*/XX

is used as an internet radio custom stream. This is the "short URL" that has been discussed previously on this thread.