PasTim wrote: > A. I need to use the full LMS. > B. A software player such as Squeezelite is perfect, except... > C. I want it to output directly over my wired network in the UPnP stream > format, rather than to an audio device - that's all. > > To be honest another piece of hardware, running another version of > linux, or android, is another device I have to maintain and worry about. > I would need to work out whether I need to look at any security issues > (there always are), update issues (there often are), read countless > forum entries about which way to connect to my amplifier (conmisdering > all sorts of topics I don't understand, like jitter), whether I need a > tweaked kernel, and so on. All for a piece of kit I don't really want. > It isn't the cost, it's the complication. Further, to connect to my > other renderer in another room, do I need a second box? > > No. An extension to software we already must surely be one way to go > for people who like simplicity. > While is may be possible to extend Squeezelite to act as a DNLA server, I think it's unlikely to happen since - it's already possible to do this using the solution I described above - it's a very specific and limited use case - it results in a loss of functionality - the only advantage I could see would be one (small, cheap (<40EUR), and e.g. with picoplayer basically maintenance-free) box less
> > Come to think of it, by running multiple copies of a 'squeezelite-like' > player I could probably get a reasonable multi-room sync if I had to, > given existing tools in LMS. > Unlikely - DNLA has no provision for this, and without any intelligence in the endpoint, the server cannot adjust anything in any case due to the lack of feedback [ extGUI4LMS - an alternative web interface: 'forum' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) / 'homepage' (http://code.google.com/p/extgui4lms/) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
