elo Wrote: > I encode both in FLAC for critical listening at home, but MP3-vbr for > iPod. I have no problem pointing my iTunes at the > smb://volume/Music/MP3 so it makes that part easy. But now I want to > get some SB2s and Softsqueeze's to use the MP3vbrs rather then doing > the LAME transcode of the FLACs to XXXmb/s-CBR. The idea being, I can > get better audio quality/mb-per-sec with VBR and save the CPU overhead > of the transcode. There's no way to do this other than to run two instances of SlimServer.
Is the system unable to handle the transcoding? There's not a lot to be gained in keeping the CPU utilization under 2% rather than, say, 12%. SlimServer transcodes to ABR (average bit-rate) rather than CBR. ABR is a type of variable bitrate encoding where the overall (average) rate is kept at a set point. The idea is that this is a better choice than VBR when you may need to stay within the confines of a given connection's bandwidth. Quality will tend to be better than CBR, but probably not quite what VBR is capable of. The problem with VBR is that you can only set a fairly general bitrate range, which might go higher than the available bandwidth rate and be more likely to result in dropouts. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22584 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
