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I have disabled Burst-on-Connect temporarily on this eval Icecast2 server
and verified that VLC Player works with this aacPlus stream: <br><br>
<a href="http://stream.orban.com:80/eval.aac">http://stream.orban.com:80/eval.aac</a>
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The stream mountpoint must be named with a .aac extension, otherwise VLC Player is unable to determine the correct codec to use. As of Icecast2 Version 2.2, just released 21 December, the proper content type of audio/aac can now be used, so it is no longer necessary or desirable to rely on the .aac in the mountpoint name for VLC Player codec selection. <br><br>
I notice that VLC Player seems to handle Burst-on-Connect just fine from SHOUTcast servers. <br><br>
Here is an example SHOUTcast aacPlus stream: <br><br>
<a href="http://sc1.abacast.com:8019">http://sc1.abacast.com:8019</a> <br><br>
Is there a major difference between the way VLC Player needs to handle Icecast2 and SHOUTcast Burst-on-Connect streams? <br><br>
Several other streams are listed here: <br><br>
<a href="http://www.opticodec.net">http://www.opticodec.net</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.tuner2.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.tuner2.com</a> <br><br>
I hope that these two changes can be made to VLC Player in the near future. I know the .aac should be fairly minor to fix, but Burst-on-Connect may be a bigger problem to solve. Burst-on-Connect is a very good feature, and works very well with Winamp for example.<br><br>
Please let me know if you would like me to turn Burst-on-Connect back on.<br><br>
Please also let me know if the streams play correctly on Linux and Macintosh. I have been unable to verify this 100%. They are aacPlus streams with 15kHz audio bandwidth, and with the proper SBR decoding should play full 15kHz bandwidth, not 7.5kHz.<br>
(I know RealPlayer Linux and Macintosh have this problem with RTSP aacPlus streams. RealPlayer Windows work OK. VLC Player Windows also works OK.)<br><br>
Thanks.<br>
-greg.<br><br>
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Greg J. Ogonowski<br>
VP Product Development<br>
ORBAN / CRL, Inc.<br>
1525 Alvarado St.<br>
San Leandro, CA 94577 USA<br>
TEL +1 510 351-3500<br>
FAX +1 510 351-0500<br>
greg@orban.com<br>
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