BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[DavidHB]

(28-07-2017 12:47)Cebolla Wrote:  The issue then becomes one of the renderer supporting the FLAC stream that MinimServer/MinimStreamer has extracted from the original MPEG-DASH stream. This broadcast/'live' type of FLAC stream differs from one that comes from a stored FLAC file in that its size is unknown and its stereo channels have been mid-side encoded, both of which the renderer's FLAC decoder will need to support in order to play the extracted FLAC stream.

Of course I don't know precisely what Linn meant by their statement; it may actually be shorthand for what you say here. The important point is that, however the stream arrives from MinimServer/MinimStreamer (via, I think, FFMPEG), the Linn device cannot handle it.

The Linn device ought (IMO) to be able to handle the stream transcoded to WAV24, but it can't do that. In fact, it can't handle the normal BBC streams transcoded to WAV either. This, I think, is a bug in the firmware; in my recollection, firmware versions prior to the major re-write at Davaar 50 didn't have this problem. If we could get around it using MinimServer properties, that would be good.

David