radish;348705 Wrote: > Transcoding is the process of converting one format to another. In this > case it's specifically talking about filetypes which the player itself > doesn't support, and which are converted to FLAC (or something else) by > the server to allow playback. > > WMA lossless is not supported by the players (due, I think, to > licensing issues) and so must be transcoded on the server. Currently, > that means gapless playback is not possible. I believe the new > streaming code in 7.3 should fix that (though I'm not 100% sure of > that).
It would be a waste of bandwidth, but what if it is streamed as WAV rather than FLAC? In that case, it would be a case of decoding on the server and streaming rather than transcode on server, stream, then decode on player. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 10.2 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53590 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
