HLS Segmented AAC Audio

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I havent seen this before but aparently it’s a thing
where you have an HLS stream, that does not carry segmented TS (MpegTransport) but rather segmented AAC

This radio stream plays fine in QuickTime - but havnt found how to play on the Roku
http://glzlv01.vds-is.bynetcdn.com/glz/ … ylist.m3u8


$ curl -G "http://glzlv01.vds-is.bynetcdn.com/glz/glz_aac/playlist.m3u8"
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=128174,CODECS="mp4a.40.2"
chunklist.m3u8

$ curl -G "http://glzlv01.vds-is.bynetcdn.com/glz/glz_aac/chunklist.m3u8"
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:11
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:45357
#EXTINF:10.031,
media-uej61p4kr_45357.aac
#EXTINF:9.961,
media-uej61p4kr_45358.aac
#EXTINF:10.031,
media-uej61p4kr_45359.aac

Any ideas?
–Thanks!

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I don’t think there is direct support for AAC 5.1

3

Thanks NML

BTW - Roku Devs - this stream - if attached as HLS to a video player will cause the Roku2 itself to crash

4

It causes a number of devices to crash. Not good for a streaming environment that is somewhat mature

5

It turns out that they switched back from .aac segments to .ts segments so now the stream works

6

We are trying to solve this same issue. Has anyone found any further information? I don’t believe it will be possible for my client to use .ts segments as they are using the same manifest for multiple endpoints.