[mythtv-users] Radio streaming in master 'Could not get playlist'

[Paul Harrison]

On 20/04/15 13:41, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 20/04/15 13:33, Frank Phillips wrote:
>> On Apr 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "John Pilkington" <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > I haven't really tried listening to radio streams before, but recent
>> high winds have left my FM aerial looking as if I shall soon want an
>> alternative.
>>  >
>>  > My build of a recent master/qt4 plays bbc_radio_three.pls and a
>> randomly chosen astrahits.m3u fine, but master/qt5 from ubuntu trusty
>> ppa gives 'Decoder Handler Error - Could not get playlist' and
>> 'DecoderHandler:: Timed out trying to download playlist from...
>>  >
>>  > For the bbc stream I'm using the url quoted here for Radio 3 HD
>>  >
>>  > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/help/howtolisten
>>  >
>>  > ... and I find I can cut-but-not-paste it.
>>  >
>>  > Where should I start looking?
>>  >
>>
>> A more recent version ;)
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/4e4eaf5a5b9d3b66a8d0132acf953ac9c86a3c22 
>>
>>
>
> Hmm.  Yes, I saw that a few days ago - before I started this. Engage 
> brain...  :-)  Thanks.

You can also try this URL for the new HD 320 kbs AAC BBC Radio Three 
stream. There is no metadata and it occasionally hiccups for me but YMMV.

http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_three.m3u8

Paul H.