Jim Lesurf wrote:

I seem to have been able to use ffmpeg to capture this year's 'First
Night' flac stream OK.

Only caught the encore of tonight's prom, listening on a different
machine. I was expecting a cheapo USB DAC to arrive last week to avoid
picking up "computer noise" either on the laptop's output jack, or the
docking station's output, but it didn't arrive, so connected THX 2.1
speakers to the audio output of the displayport monitor which worked
quite well, except the audio cuts off when the monitor power saver kicks in.

Watching the VLC stats, the FLAC stream seems to burst over 900kbps on
occasion (usually during applause).