Real Media Live Stream

[plonk]

Hello,

I have already established that this is not purely a rockbox issue, but thought someone may have an idea.

If I dump a realaudio file from the BBC iplayer, for an already broadcast program, it plays fine in Rockbox. (the audio codec is ffcook)

If I dump a live stream (the idea being to play it back later), it doesn't play in Rockbox. I think this is because the meta-data of the file shows the audio length as zero. Interestingly VLC also seems to have this problem, but mplayer (used to dump the stream originally), plays the file fine.

Any ideas? I did a quick google but couldn't see anything obvious.

An example short stream can be found at
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1397036/test.ra

Update:
By poking around in the source code, I found that the duration is read from the "PROP" header area of the file by rm.c in the source. I found the correct bit in the the working audio file and fiddled with the hex and it does change the duration.

I'm going to see if I can write a little routine to update the duration. I'll update this in case anyone is interested.

Update 2:
My endless googling has brought to my attention that the BBC (the reason for this) are shortly to drop Real streams. I have now turned my attention to aac files which the flvstreamer generates. Out of interest I did manage to update the duration, but it didn't fix the issue.