Can't play BBC world service

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Can't play BBC world service

Postby voltagex » 15 Oct 2016 14:43

I am using VLC 2.2.4

Worldwide / outside of UK link is http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/ma ... rvice.m3u8. This is the same URL that's presented to mobile devices.

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core debug: looking for access module matching "http": 21 candidates http debug: querying proxy for http://as-hls-ww-live.edgesuite.net/pool_27/live/bbc_world_service/bbc_world_service.isml/bbc_world_service-audio=48000-230708636.ts http debug: no proxy http debug: http: server='as-hls-ww-live.edgesuite.net' port=80 file='/pool_27/live/bbc_world_service/bbc_world_service.isml/bbc_world_service-audio=48000-230708636.ts' core debug: net: connecting to as-hls-ww-live.edgesuite.net port 80 core debug: connection succeeded (socket = 2628) http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206 http debug: Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) http debug: Content-Type: video/MP2T http debug: stream size=42488,pos=0,remaining=42488 http debug: this frame size=42488 http debug: Connection: close core debug: using access module "http" core debug: Using stream method for AStream* core debug: starting pre-buffering core debug: received first data after 0 ms core debug: pre-buffering done 1024 bytes in 0s - 1000000 KiB/s core debug: removing module "http" httplive debug: downloaded segment 230708636 from stream 0 httplive debug: candidate 0 bandwidth (bits/s) 9441777 >= 50880 httplive debug: playing segment 230708634 from stream 0
These messages repeat, and no audio is played.

I am able to play the same stream with ffplay:

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ffplay version 3.0.1 Copyright (c) 2003-2016 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 5.3.0 (GCC) configuration: --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --e nable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libdcadec --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --ena ble-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-lib twolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libw ebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-decklink --enable-zlib libavutil 55. 17.103 / 55. 17.103 libavcodec 57. 24.102 / 57. 24.102 libavformat 57. 25.100 / 57. 25.100 libavdevice 57. 0.101 / 57. 0.101 libavfilter 6. 31.100 / 6. 31.100 libswscale 4. 0.100 / 4. 0.100 libswresample 2. 0.101 / 2. 0.101 libpostproc 54. 0.100 / 54. 0.100 Input #0, hls,applehttp, from 'http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/low/ak/bbc_world _service.m3u8': Duration: N/A, start: 21102.152889, bitrate: 66 kb/s Program 0 Metadata: variant_bitrate : 50880 Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (HE-AAC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 66 kb/s Metadata: variant_bitrate : 50880 21107.47 M-A: 0.000 fd= 0 aq= 9KB vq= 0KB sq= 0B f=0/0

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Re: Can't play BBC world service

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 15 Oct 2016 15:05

HLS support in VLC is buggy in version 2.2.x and earlier. You need 3.0.
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