oreillymj Wrote: > BTW - just for the hell of it last night, I thought I'd stream the > Kelly's Industry > http://www.kellyindustries.com/downloads/dts-44k_diatonis_soal.zip DTS > file to my SB2 as a flac file. > > There were a few surprising results. > > 1) The WAV only compressed from 59mb to 56mb when converted to flac. I > was expecting a much better compression ratio, based on a post by Sean > earlier saying that DTS files were padded with 0's. I was expected to > shrink the file by maybe 40-50%. BTW- the flac compression was set to > -8 (highest compression) > > 2) The flac file would not stream to the SB2 without breakup. I'm not > sure what the problem is, but even though the reception of my 802.11g > network is 80-90% (and the SB2 was the only Wireless device on it), the > SB2 did not seem to be able to fill it's buffer quickly enough to keep > the music from breaking up. When I looked at the buffer fullness > indicator, it seemed that when the SB2 was paused , the buffer would > fill to 94%, then when I unpaused, the indicator dropped in steps of > 10% until the audio started to break up. > > Someone mentioned in another thread that the SB2 had 64mb RAM on board, > with 32mb used for buffering. If that's correct,I would have expected to > get at least 1/2 way into the file before breakup. The reality was that > I only managed 10-15 seconds at a time.
Did you compress to flac on the fly? If so, could the high compression level (-8) cause your CPU to be the bottleneck? Steinar -- sbjaerum _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
