HLSStream + traditional stream

[pete-789]

I've broken my internet radio coding down into bits. I have sketches fully working for:

• HSLStream playing m3u8 feeds
• URLStream / MultiDecoder playing mp3 and aac feeds (actually 'audio/aacp', which I had to define for it to be recognised)

The question is, is there a stream or way to play all of these types in one routine? Could the MultiStreamingDecoder be used? I realise that the m3u8 'chunked' feed is very different to normal streaming...

Or I suppose I could use logic in the sketch to stream to the correct routine based on the mimetype.

Once again, your routines are fantastic, such complex stuff made (relatively) easy - I'm even beginning to understand some of it !

[pschatzmann]

There is currently no such thing, but you can try to make it yourself.

Possible appraches:

• try to determine the type from the url. if it ends with m3u8 it is a HSLStream (efficient but maybe not reliable)
• try to use a URLStream and if the mime type is HLS close it and forward the processing to the HLSStream
• try to get the mime type e.g. with a HEAD action call and delegate the processing based on the result (adds some overhead)

[pete-789]

I just wondered if there was one routine that handled all these... thanks for the ideas anyway.

In fact I will have 10 static stations (0 to 9 on an IR remote), so I can define if they are HLS or not in an array.

Many thanks!