gharris999;441854 Wrote: > Thanks for the tip re purchasing in France or Italy. I suppose I ought > to invest some $$$ now in FXE in anticipation of making this purchase a > year or two down the road. > > Streaming: I asked this question when the Jive was in development...and > the answer still isn't intuitively obvious to me: > > For a handheld device like the iThing, I assume that I won't be able to > discern much of an audio difference on play-back between lossless and > lossy content. I also assume that using the iThing's CoreAudio stuff to > decode MP3 audio is easier to implement than a port of libflac. So, > given those two assumptions, what's the trade-off for making streaming > playback work on the iThing? Server-side transcoding to MP3 with iPeng > connecting as http://scip:9000/stream.mp3 like any other mp3 player? Or > make iPeng into some kind of a stripped-down SqueezePlay client capable > of receiving a flac stream and decoding it? Which is more likely to > drain the battery faster? Higher bandwith requirements for the flac > stream but lower cpu utilization for decoding? (That's flac's big > strength, right?) Or lower bandwidth requirements to receive the MP3 > stream but higher cpu utilization to decode it? > > Or am I working with faulty assumptions here?
I assume your iThing reference is properly documented below...? http://www.bosey.co.in/2008/09/apple-launches-ithing-nobody-knows-what.html -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64944 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
