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When producing a live/continous audio-only stream via Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is it still possible to utilise timed metadata?

I understand with video you utilise ID3 tags and mux them in to an MPEG-2 transport stream, but I also understand that for audio only a TS is not the right way to go.

What is the correct methodology of including timed metadata in a live continous audio only HLS stream?

andybee
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  • Is there really a problem with streaming ts files with aac audio? I know it's slightly less bandwidth efficient , but you can mux your metadata into the stream as you mentioned. – vipw May 10 '13 at 13:22
  • Fundamental issue I'm hitting is that Apple's own segmenter app spots audio-only and removes it from the M2TS wrapper and creates simple AAC segments. – andybee May 15 '13 at 11:23
  • doesn't sound fundamental. there are other segmenters you can try. – vipw May 15 '13 at 20:26
  • Could you point me in the direction of alternative segmenter that might work with this sort of setup? – andybee May 20 '13 at 10:31
  • ffmpeg supports segmenting for HLS with the -f segment option. – vipw May 20 '13 at 20:43
  • Unfortunately, however, I don't think it supports splicing the timed id3 metadata in. – andybee May 21 '13 at 08:11

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