P Floding Wrote: > > 1. AAC is not lossless (normally). Does even Apple support lossless > AAC? >
Lossless AAC (aka MPEG 4 ALC) is not widely used at all. Apple does not support it AFAIK, and it is not the same as Apple Lossless. > > 2. My ultralight laptop, running at 500MHz, manages to transcode > 224kbit AAC and route it via a 11Mbit/s wifi to the SB3, which is also > on the same wifi network. I can't imagine what underpowered server > can't manage the same? > NAS disks often have very weak processors - just enough to move files around. Often they're 200MHz or less, without the necessary memory / CPU cache / ALU to run codecs. Lossless maybe, but lossy codecs can be quite heavy unless they're tuned for the architecture. > > 3. Transcoding one lossless format to another must be even less > demanding than transcoding 224 kbit AAC like I'm doing. > Correct. > > 4. Implementing some way of seeking through transcoded material would > be a good idea. Personally I would be happy with a way to move a marker > through a bar representing the song. (Like on the iPod). Being able to > actually hear anything while moving is almost useless anyway, I think > -and is what would be the hard part to implement, I believe. > Agreed. Patches welcome if anyone wants to have a crack at it. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19155 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
