It looks like the latest ffmpeg 2.5.3 can only encode HDS but not decode. It can decode HLS though so in theory ffmpeg can be used to decode the HLS streams and convert to flac for playback:
$ ffmpeg -formats 2>/dev/null | grep -e hds -e hls E hds HDS Muxer E hls Apple HTTP Live Streaming D hls,applehttp Apple HTTP Live Streaming ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gasteropod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins