Icecast Streaming Media Server

[luca066]

Hi Karl,

I'm trying to listen to an aacplus stream using iOS Safari Mobile browser.
I use the audio html5 tag and it doesn't work with aacplus streams.
With mp3 streams it works great.
Safari Mobile has got the capability to play aacplus live stream (if I use a shoutcast server with the same stream the browser plays the audio).

Do you have any idea about it?
I use this html code:
<audio id="mystream" src="http://myserver:8080/mount" ></audio>

I've tried this code too:
<audio id="mystream" src="http://myserver:8080/mount" type="audio/mp4; codecs=mp4a.40.5" ></audio>

I've tried with Icecast 2.3.2-kh31.4 and Icecast 2.3.2-POST.
Thanks for your answer

Luca

[karlH]

It's usually next to impossible to determine why an application I don't develop fails to playback a stream. My initial guess would be either a missing extension on the mountpoint or the content type is not as expected eg should be audio/aac or audio/aacp

karl.

[davect99]

HTML 5 audio does not support aacPlus. For streaming, your options are MP3 or OGG, but that's also determined by the browser. Have a look at this article: http://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/

[luca066]

Hi Dave,

Safari on iOS (including iPad) currently supports uncompressed WAV and AIF audio, MP3 audio, and AAC-LC or HE-AAC audio. HE-AAC is the preferred format.
It works with http streaming (icecast and shoutcast).
It was a problem related to the mime type.

thanks to Karl.

Luca

[davect99]

[cruxial]

Which MIME type did you eventually use? I've got a similar issue with the iPhone and aacplus stream. I can get the iPhone to stream aacplus but it will cut-off for about 1-2 secs every 3-5 mins repeatedly. What makes this issue more strange is that it only occurs when connected to a mobile network (3G) however does not render this problem when connected to WIFI and works great.

[luca066]

Probably you have a prolem with the bandwidth available to your cell phone, it's not a problem related to the mime type.

[hariom]

@luca066

Did you test the aac streaming from icecast server over the chrome browser or any other browser except safari using HTML5 audio tag.

[luca066]

Here you can find some info: http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5