Stream error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd3 in position

[deboy69]

What version of Music Assistant has the issue?

2.2.4

What version of the Home Assistant Integration have you got installed?

2024.9.1

Have you tried everything in the Troubleshooting FAQ and reviewed the Open and Closed Issues and Discussions to resolve this yourself?

• [X] Yes

The problem

MA wont play M3u8 stream on radio

How to reproduce

add local url to streaming radio link

Music Providers

NA on MA. But works on VLC Player

Player Providers

Airplay

Full log output

No response

Additional information

No response

What version of Home Assistant Core are your running

2024.9.1

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Supervised

On what type of hardware are you running?

Alternative

[johnboiles]

Can't tell for sure without the log attached but this is probably the same as #2908

[deboy69]

I'll grab you the logs. Last ticket i opened I got "yelled" at for attaching the log without being asked for it.

[OzGav]

@deboy69 Just attach it don’t paste it

[OzGav]

Probably fixed by https://github.com/music-assistant/server/pull/1664

Confirm when the next beta is released

[deboy69]

MA Log.txt

The log File is attached. It definitely could be related or similar to the above log.

[johnboiles]

Looks to me like the same issue but in the playlist parsing code this time:

music_assistant.audio.hls_stream] Start streaming HLS stream for url http://192.168.1.242:9022/octane.m3u8
2024-09-15 09:23:39.362 ERROR (MainThread) [ffmpeg.419] Stream error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

[marcelveldt]

I'll grab you the logs. Last ticket i opened I got "yelled" at for attaching the log without being asked for it.

attaching is a log is always good (like attach the file) but pasting complete logs in the textbox is really awful as it makes both the whole report and the log unreadable.

[marcelveldt]

Well, this is not an MA issue then as the playlist is a m3u8 and should contain UTF-8 (hence the extension m3u8 instead of just m3u) so this is just a non compliant playlist file. Its also a local address so seems to me that you have some sort of influence over it ?

Sure we can hack around our code to also accept other codings but its still super strange that an UTF-8 based playlist file does not contain UTF-8 encoding

[deboy69]

Well, this is not an MA issue then as the playlist is a m3u8 and should contain UTF-8 (hence the extension m3u8 instead of just m3u) so this is just a non compliant playlist file. Its also a local address so seems to me that you have some sort of influence over it ?

Sure we can hack around our code to also accept other codings but its still super strange that an UTF-8 based playlist file does not contain UTF-8 encoding

m3u isnt accepted by music assistant. VLC media player shows mp4a codec and plays it. Not sure what the issue is.

[marcelveldt]

@deboy69 did you test the new version ? version 2.2.5 (or 2.3.0b24 if you are running the beta)

[deboy69]

Yes, using 2.2.5 currently and no change

[OzGav]

Marcel also queried what this playlist file is as it appears to contain non UTF-8 characters in a M3U8 file?

Why do you say MA won’t accept a M3U playlist?

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[deboy69]

Idk just trial and error I guess on trying to see what I can come up with.

Another container brings in the streaming from SiriusXm locally via a local docker container.

[OzGav]

Sounds like this "other container" may be the problem. What software is it?

[deboy69]

I would have to disagree. Since the container has been running fine without any updates and VLC runs fine on it. The container hasn't had updates in over a year.

Only change has been MA updates. Used to work and updates broke it unfortunately

[OzGav]

You didn’t answer the question as to what this software is?

[deboy69]

https://github.com/AngellusMortis/sxm-docker

[OzGav]

This will get looked at in due course

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[OzGav]

Not stale

[OzGav]

@deboy69 Please see if this is fixed in beta 30

[deboy69]

Hello, unfortunately it did not fix the problem?

[marcelveldt]

Please test beta 33 but also be aware that b33 will even bring a siriusxm provider natively to MA

[OzGav]

@deboy69 siriusxm is now available natively in MA so please use that

[deboy69]

Thanks for the help. Can confirm native works with beta. Has a little "stuttering" every once in a while but it works.

[OzGav]

Other users have reported after a couple of station changes things settled down...?