How to play an AAC+ stream in Chrome?
I’ve tried several combinations of types and setting in (the excellent) mediaplayer.js, but cannot get BBC Radio 3 to play in Chrome. The stream URL is here, and the playlist from which it is taken is here.
The tag is:
<audio src="http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_intl_lc_radio3_p?s=1362261751&e=1362276151&h=47e8b2755e05d1a5ceeb665f116984de" type="audio/mp4" id="player"></audio>
Looking at Chrome’s inspector, I see that the network is calling the stream, but it just loads indefinitely, without audio starting.
Other streams are working fine (demo), but this particular one is problematic, and I assume it has to do with the AAC+ format.
Edit: The instantiation code is here, figure it’s clearer than pasting the whole thing in.
Edit 2: It works in Safari (Mac)! Which I assume is related to Quicktime. Which is why I believe that AAC+ is the issue.
Answer
See https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/jplayer/9Ks2Crfjwrg/jDCDBgv3qr0J. It seems that AAC+ support is somewhat odd. It also seems that AAC+ can be placed in various containers. like m4a and FLV. Also see stackoverflow.com/questions/4018596/aac-streaming-from-shoutcast-in-flash.