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Topic: Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1 (Read 915 times) previous topic - next topic
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Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1

I have problem with foobar v2.1 preview 2023-05-30 and BBC HLS radios - for example http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=96000.norewind.m3u8 - playback is interrupted after some time with message like this: "Decoding failure at 0:32.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file)"
With v 2.0 everything seems fine, playback is without interruptions.

Re: Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1

Reply #2 –
I guess it's broken by this entry from the changelog...  :o

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Rewritten HLS reader, removed lots of hacks, made remote read-ahead setting used properly.

Might be tricky to fix from outside the UK on BBC streams.  :P

Re: Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1

Reply #3 –
VPN...

Unless BBC are super strict on paywalls (their license fees are basically a paywall).

BBC should have been one of the streams I checked.

Re: Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1

Reply #4 –
Works for me, several hours without an error.
I'll keep it running and log issues.
Doesn't seem to require UK IP.
Microsoft Windows: We can't script here, this is bat country.
 

Re: Problem with HLS radios (BBC radios) and foobar v 2.1

Reply #5 –
Same behavior for v2.1 (2023-05-30)
the error occurs only for stream: http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=96000.norewind.m3u8
It looks like the value of the "Read-ahead for remote files" buffer has an effect.

Console output:
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Decoding failure at 0:31.915 (invalid server response):
"http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_904/live/ww/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=96000.norewind.m3u8"
Playback interrupted, source is stalling...
For v1.6.16 no errors occur.