As I have shown there is not much cpu impact on increasing the quality to nearly maximum, especially if using a system better than mine which I assume most people are (celeron 633).
The only question is whether wireless links are up to it, especially when doing pcm. Maybe the automatic defaults would detect a wireless vs wired squeezebox. If it is wired it would use a higher (but may be not as high as I suggested), and if it is wireless stick with the current default. I assume that slimserver can detect wireless clients as it already does so for bitrate limiting setup.
Triode wrote:
John,
Is should work over a wireless connection but you need to gauge the amount of bandwidth you have.
The new scrolling stuff is mine, it gives lower cpu for scrolling and the ability to make scrolling far smoother. However as all the work is done on the server, this can lead to high network bandwidth and is server cpu dependant. So for the moment we did not change the default values, so users who don't touch get the cpu gain, but don't get the improved scrolling display.
I would value feedback from a range of users on this. On a wired connection and a good wireless connection (short range), I can get to 0.01 and 1 pixel. This is 100 frames per second! However the downside of setting too fast is that you will block communication between the client and the server and so the user interface will lock up etc. Hence feedback of good settings for real world wireless connections would be good (and maybe we can then be more agressive on the defaults). I would advice testing it whilst streaming in pcm mode to see what the limit is for you.
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