on 2005-11-15 09:24 Philip Meyer said the following:
I thought it might be possible to detect based on the encoding, rather than add a new tag. Eg. can anything be determined by looking at the bit rate? Otherwise adding a new tag would seem the logical thing to do.
The decoded WAV file would have a magic number at the start of (and periodically throughout) the data to indicate it's an S/PDIF-ready stream (in the case of my converted DTS/AC3 files), or a different magic number if it's a DTS-WAV ripped from a DTS CD.
So it's possible at the player level, I guess. There's a slim possibility of a false-positive, but it's unlikely in practice.
I have two SB's - an SB2 in the lounge and an older SBG in the bedroom. If I tried to play a multi-stream flac file and the two devices were synchronised (SBG with a bit limit), what would happen? I'm assuming slimserver would try to transcode to .mp3 - would this work?
If your DTS file is transcoded to MP3 it won't decode to DTS at the other end. DTS won't survive a lossy transcode; it's not PCM audio so the encoder's assumptions are all wrong.
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