It seems that the BBC’s radio streams have changed a bit during 2015. I was interested in getting them to work with mpd.
Note that with mpd streams are maintained by the client, not the server: the client must do something like:
mpc add "http://some.server/some.stream:1234"
As is stands it would appear that mpd cannot handle the streams that are now used by the BBC. They are:
- BBC Radio 1
- BBC Radio 1 Xtra
- BBC Radio 2
- BBC Radio 3
- BBC Radio 4
- BBC Radio 4 LW
- BBC Radio 4 Extra
- BBC Radio 5 live
- BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
- BBC Radio 6 music
- BBC Asian Network
You can add all these URLs as streams. They don’t work, however, unless you add a patch to mpd to let FFmpeg handle http:// URIs:
diff --git a/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx b/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
index 669f8d4..c839ffe 100644
--- a/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ input_ffmpeg_open(const char *uri,
!StringStartsWith(uri, "rtsp://") &&
!StringStartsWith(uri, "rtmp://") &&
!StringStartsWith(uri, "rtmpt://") &&
- !StringStartsWith(uri, "rtmps://"))
+ !StringStartsWith(uri, "rtmps://") &&
+ !StringStartsWith(uri, "http://"))
return nullptr;
AVIOContext *h;
diff --git a/src/ls.cxx b/src/ls.cxx
index 6ab68b6..be94af8 100644
--- a/src/ls.cxx
+++ b/src/ls.cxx
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static const char *remoteUrlPrefixes[] = {
"rtmp://",
"rtmpt://",
"rtmps://",
+ "http://",
#endif
#ifdef ENABLE_SMBCLIENT
"smb://",