Any format which is not native (i.e. not Flac, MP3, WMA, Wav) has to be transcoded into one of the native format of WAV, Flac or MP3.
If transcoding is into Flac, then no matter what the encoding rate (e.g. 32kbps, 320kbps) of the source - the Flac stream from server to player will always require about the same bandwidth about 1500kbps. If the transcoding is into MP3 then the user may be able to select the quality and bitrate of the MP3 bitstream sent between server and player. If a user wants to limit bandwidth to a plauyer then setting the "Bit rate limit" will automatically choose the MP3 forma. Typically for NAS systems with low power CPUs there is a compromise between bandwidth and CPU utilisation. If stuttering is happening on a NAS system with transcoded streams - two possible cause include - lack of bandwidth or CPU overload. Many NAS systems have a CPU which do not support Floating point and can suffer from CPU overload if the decoding (e.g. mplayer) and encoding applications (e.g. flac, lame) are not compiled to use Fixed point arithmetic. Furthermore even with Fixed point the processor of a NAS system may not have enough memory or CPU capacity to handle multiple or synced streams. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53021 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
