Bugzilla – Bug 3092
Nested ASX playlist support
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
I tried with both squeezenetwork and with slimserver (also installed lame.exe and other things it needed). But on the box, it just scrolls the the URL on the display once and reverts back to clock. No audio. These are the streams (from BBC, Hindi News) http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/meta/tx/nb/ajkedin1_au_nb.asx http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/meta/tx/nb/ajkedin2_au_nb.asx http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/meta/tx/nb/aajkal_au_nb.asx http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/meta/tx/nb/ghatnachakra_au_nb.asx The WMA files (which can actually be accessed by wget <url> and played in any major player running on WinXP) corresponding to the above streams are: http://streaming-ws.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/hindi/tx/nb/hin0100.wma http://streaming-ws.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/hindi/tx/nb/hin0230.wma http://streaming-ws.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/hindi/tx/nb/hin1400.wma http://streaming-ws.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net/hindi/tx/nb/hin1700.wma
These use the WMA voice codec, which is under development.
Firmware 50 adds support for the WMA voice codec. The slimserver is now not handling the playlist correctly, so over to Andy.
Those ASX links include a reference to another ASX playlist that is served with the wrong content-type. Looking at how we can better deal with wrong content-types.
The real issue here is that we don't support nested playlists. I'm going to punt for 6.3 and take a look at doing it in 6.5.
Change 8491 adds nested playlist support. However, the BBC streams listed in this bug are invalid and will not work. They contain an mms URL that returns a playlist but the wrong content-type.
Happy to report the ASX playlists in this bug now work as of change 9118. :)