BBC R3 Lossless Stream

[DavidHB]

(30-07-2017 14:03)ac16161 Wrote:  My ... mistake was to miss out the #EXTM3U entry on the first line.

Whatever mistake I might have made, it was not that one, as I added the new lines to an existing working playlist with the correct first line.

(30-07-2017 14:03)ac16161 Wrote:  Adding the first line fixed the playlist descriptors and enabled native DASH-FLAC plus transcoding.

Are you playing the stream transcoded to WAV or WAV24? I didn't think that even Simon was able to do this as yet. As I understand the way things work, MinimStreamer hands the DASH (variable bit rate) part of the process, and then (using FFMPEG) either sends the native FLAC to the renderer, or (if it can) transcodes it to WAV or whatever.

The BBC FLAC streams have the stereo channels encoded as MID-SIDE rather than LEFT-RIGHT, and I don't think that the FFMPEG codecs (which are also used by foobar2000) can handle this form of FLAC encoding

(30-07-2017 14:03)ac16161 Wrote:  My older Linn streamer is an original Majik DSM (i.e. no HDMI), my newer one is a Katalyst KDS. As they both work would seem very strange if any Linn players out there could not play the DASH stream.

I agree that it would be strange. Which is why I am trying to get to the bottom of the problem on my player. I certainly don't rule out a mistake on my part, but at the moment am not sure what that mistake could be.

David