Using BBC iPlayer with xmms on stream.mp3

[hellesangel]

This is a fairly standard setup so I'm a bit surprised that Google didn't find anything.

I am trying to listen to BBC live radio on a software player (xmms) that is listening on stream.mp3. FLAC files play fine, and mp3 radio streams too, but the BBC and many other radio streams do not. All these radio streams play fine on all hardware players (Radio & Squeezebox Classic).

The logs don't offer much information beyond 'unable to stream RTMP to HTTP client':

[11-03-23 10:37:12.5919] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::RTMP::updateOnStream (288) param ttl expired updating
[11-03-23 10:37:12.5942] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::LiveText::new (34) livetext: pubsub.livetext.radio4 session: 747662604912291111742
[11-03-23 10:37:12.7280] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::LiveText::gottext (145) bbc.co.uk/radio4, displaying in 0 seconds
[11-03-23 10:37:12.7284] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::LiveText::update (155) bbc.co.uk/radio4, displaying now
[11-03-23 10:37:12.8317] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::BBCMSParser::_updateCB (300) updating streamUrl with new data from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4...c_radio_fourfm
[11-03-23 10:37:12.8329] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::BBCMSParser::_findStream (242) Found stream for iplayer_intl_stream_aac_rtmp_live from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/4..._radio_fourfm: rtmp://cp60697.live.edgefcs.net:1935?icon=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5 iYmMuY28udWsvaXBsYXllci9pbWcvcmFkaW8vYmJjX3JhZGlvX 2ZvdXIuZ2lm&livetxt=cHVic3ViLmxpdmV0ZXh0LnJhZGlvNA ==&ttl=MTMwMDg3MzA0Mg==&tcurl=cnRtcDovL2NwNjA2OTcu bGl2ZS5lZGdlZmNzLm5ldDoxOTM1L2xpdmU/X2Zjc192aG9zdD1jcDYwNjk3LmxpdmUuZWRnZWZjcy5uZXQmYX V0aD1kYUVkMGN3YjhiamFYYlZkcmRQY1BiVWJDY2phbWFqYWJi Yi1ibklCM1YtYldHLURwbkVBb0ZuT0N1SHV6RCZhaWZwPXYwMD Emc2xpc3Q9UmFkaW9fNF9JbnRANjQ0OA==&url=aHR0cDovL3d 3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbWVkaWFzZWxlY3Rvci80L210aXMvc3RyZ WFtL2JiY19yYWRpb19mb3VyZm0=&app=bGl2ZT9fZmNzX3Zob3 N0PWNwNjA2OTcubGl2ZS5lZGdlZmNzLm5ldCZhdXRoPWRhRWQw Y3diOGJqYVhiVmRyZFBjUGJVYkNjamFtYWphYmJiLWJuSUIzVi 1iV0ctRHBuRUFvRm5PQ3VIdXpEJmFpZnA9djAwMSZzbGlzdD1S YWRpb180X0ludEA2NDQ4&br=MzI=&subscribe=UmFkaW9fNF9 JbnRANjQ0OA==&swfurl=&live=MQ==&streamname=UmFkaW9 fNF9JbnRANjQ0OD9hdXRoPWRhRWQwY3diOGJqYVhiVmRyZFBjU GJVYkNjamFtYWphYmJiLWJuSUIzVi1iV0ctRHBuRUFvRm5PQ3V IdXpEJmFpZnA9djAwMSZzbGlzdD1SYWRpb180X0ludEA2NDQ4J mFpZnA9djAwMQ==&update=UGx1Z2luczo6QkJDaVBsYXllcjo 6QkJDTVNQYXJzZXI=&.aac
[11-03-23 10:37:12.8338] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::RTMP::new (91) unable to stream RTMP to HTTP client
[11-03-23 10:37:12.8340] Slim::Player::Song:pen (465) Warning: stream failed to open [rtmp://cp60697.live.edgefcs.net:1935?icon=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5 iYmMuY28udWsvaXBsYXllci9pbWcvcmFkaW8vYmJjX3JhZGlvX 2ZvdXIuZ2lm&livetxt=cHVic3ViLmxpdmV0ZXh0LnJhZGlvNA ==&ttl=MTMwMDg3MjkzMQ==&tcurl=cnRtcDovL2NwNjA2OTcu bGl2ZS5lZGdlZmNzLm5ldDoxOTM1L2xpdmU/X2Zjc192aG9zdD1jcDYwNjk3LmxpdmUuZWRnZWZjcy5uZXQmYX V0aD1kYUViWGJTYk5jTmFWZDViQmRkY2pkWGR5Ym5jeWM3YWli dy1ibklCTW8tYldHLUtvcEVKcEZuTUV1RnV6RiZhaWZwPXYwMD Emc2xpc3Q9UmFkaW9fNF9JbnRANjQ0OA==&url=aHR0cDovL3d 3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbWVkaWFzZWxlY3Rvci80L210aXMvc3RyZ WFtL2JiY19yYWRpb19mb3VyZm0=&app=bGl2ZT9fZmNzX3Zob3 N0PWNwNjA2OTcubGl2ZS5lZGdlZmNzLm5ldCZhdXRoPWRhRWJY YlNiTmNOYVZkNWJCZGRjamRYZHlibmN5YzdhaWJ3LWJuSUJNby 1iV0ctS29wRUpwRm5NRXVGdXpGJmFpZnA9djAwMSZzbGlzdD1S YWRpb180X0ludEA2NDQ4&br=MzI=&subscribe=UmFkaW9fNF9 JbnRANjQ0OA==&swfurl=&live=MQ==&streamname=UmFkaW9 fNF9JbnRANjQ0OD9hdXRoPWRhRWJYYlNiTmNOYVZkNWJCZGRja mRYZHlibmN5YzdhaWJ3LWJuSUJNby1iV0ctS29wRUpwRm5NRXV GdXpGJmFpZnA9djAwMSZzbGlzdD1SYWRpb180X0ludEA2NDQ4J mFpZnA9djAwMQ==&update=UGx1Z2luczo6QkJDaVBsYXllcjo 6QkJDTVNQYXJzZXI=&.aac].
[11-03-23 10:37:18.8057] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::LiveText:ESTROY (228) close livetext: pubsub.livetext.radio4

This is with the BBC iPlayer turned up to 'Info'.

I suspect a transcoding problem, but what's the solution? I'm hoping this isn't simply an unsupported feature.

Thanks in advance.


Server details (Ubuntu Server 10.10):
Version: 7.5.1 - r30836 @ Tue Jun 1 05:57:28 PDT 2010
Server IP Address: 192.168.1.19
Server HTTP Port Number: 9000
Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8
Platform Architecture: x86_64-linux
Perl Version: 5.10.1 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
MySQL Version: 5.1.49-1ubuntu8.1
Total Players Recognized: 5

[bpa]

Try using BBC iplayer plugin setting to use WMA encoding rather than the AAC but since you are using Linux you'll need to add server WMA decoding using something like PlayWMA plugin with mplayer.

[hellesangel]

Worked like a charm, just in time for the budget ;-) - was missing the Win32 codecs, which are in the Ubuntu w32codecs package, or w64codecs for 64 bit machines like this one.

Many thanks bpa.

[bpa]

For most radio stream shouldn't have needed the w32 codecs as they are built into mplayer. The exception might be wma voice but BBC doesn't use this and wma lossless but no radio stream this format.