BBC Sounds support in mpv
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Adam Thompson <[email protected]>
2019-11-29

As someone who mostly uses the command line and is a UK resident I've often
needed a utility to allow me to listen to BBC content (specifically radio).
For some time now I've been using get_iplayer to download archived content
and various lists of URLs for live radio streams.

Out of interest, I pointed mpv (with the youtube-dl hook installed) at a
BBC sounds link.  This worked, with audio playing and being seekable too.

From reading the docs for mpv and youtube-dl I guess this shouldn't have come
as a surprise since it claims to support lots of sites with flash and html5
based video and audio content and BBC sounds falls into this category.
However, I thought it was worth noting and I'm now wondering which other
services this supports...  I guess at some stage I should go read the
youtube-dl docs and/or start pointing mpv (which uses youtube-dl to handle
extracting content streams from web pages) at pages containing interesting
content.

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