On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:47:48 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

People may be interested in this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/po...Surround-Sound

I'd be interested in knowing what Linux distros/browsers work (or not).
Both for my own interest and to pass on to the BBC for their info. Hope is
to make the final 4.0 systems as accessible as possible as well as as high
quality as possible.

I'd also like to give it a try myself, but almost certainly would need to
install a suitable new distro, etc, to do so. Hence reports from other
Linux users re what works/not would help me. Is Chrome vital, or will FF
work? etc.

I think that last question is answered by information from two
different pages. See under "What new technology is being used?"
on the page you quote and the second paragraph under "What will
I need?" on the FAQ page.

If you are happy using Chrome and it works on your current
distro why change it?

Although a problem I have is that I'd want to be able to capture the 4.0
for later analysis. So again, any ideas on that would be welcome as I'd
have to do it via an 'internal' method like catching the 4.0 stream. I
don't have any 'surround sound' audio kit! My first thought is an alsa tee
or divert, but I don't know how easy that will be for 4.0, particularly if
I'm also converting to stereo for listening. That said, I can not bother
with 'live' listening and just deal with that later if I can capture the
audio to then process/examine/listen to later on!

What follows is something of a rant!

You may, or may not, be aware that there is a local radio
station, Radio Jackie, near where Brian Gaff lives. They have a
web page, below, which gives the URLs for a number of streams so
that people can use the software of their choice. Why oh why
can't the BBC do the same? They hide the iPlayer streams behind
Flash (which I refuse to have on the grounds of too many
security problems) and now they are hiding the surround sound
stream behind only one browser which works on a non-Microsoft
operating system. From my point of view Chrome is not an option
because it includes Flash.

http://www.radiojackie.com/listennowpage.asp

See if you can persuade someone at the BBC that there are people
who have a clue, who want to use their own choice of software,
and therefore only need the stream's URL. On one of the web
pages, of course, not in a private email.
--
Roger