Is there a way to play an mpeg-dash audio stream from console? This is an example stream.
It would also be good to be able to force a specific stream quality.
I have tried mpv, cvlc but they don't seem to be able to parse the playlist and assemble the chunks.
As mentioned in my comment one can now use ffmpeg's ffplay utility to playback DASH content from the command line. In earlier versions of ffmpeg DASH playback wasn't always enabled - see my related question for details e.g.:
ffplay http://dash.edgesuite.net/dash264/TestCases/1a/netflix/exMPD_BIP_TC1.mpd
One can also use ffmpeg to process DASH media - so you can easily use it to download (or transform) DASH content e.g.:
ffmpeg -i http://dash.edgesuite.net/dash264/TestCases/1a/netflix/exMPD_BIP_TC1.mpd exMPD_BIP_TC1.mp4