MrC wrote: > Think: Local LAN DLNA. Thank you MrC !! -- You got there before me.
Yes indeed, the context is my Whitebear application which provides extended UPnP / DLNA functionality to the Squeezebox world. There are quite a few UPnP / DLNA media Control Points coming out that have the capability to stream hi-res audio files to remote players. And I want to extend Whitebear to support them. The two most common hi-res audio formats being offerred by media Control Points are FLAC and L24, although WAV and AIF are also sometimes seen. (Side comment: some offerred formats are not natively supported at hi-res by Squeeze players, so in those cases Whitebear acts as a proxy transcoder to deliver hi-res FLAC instead). My own experience with my own players so far is that they actually *can* play hi-res FLAC, but that they *cannot* stream or buffer the incoming data stream fast enough to ensure smooth playback without rebufferng dropouts. At the moment, I don't know if this problem is specific to the actual players that I own, or specific to my actual LAN environment, or if it is a generic problem for Squeeze players. Nor do I know whether there any tweaks that one could make to improve things. Hence my question in this thread. PS some comments to Pippin: I was surprised that your response was to bite my head off; firstly I am not criticising the Squeeze players; I was just asking a question; and (just so you know) I certainly do *not* intend to get into any kind of debate about whether anyone can hear the difference between hi-res audio and 44k/16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97244 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
