cepheid Wrote: > Is there any reason why this is difficult to do, or is it simply that > nobody's yet coded up that functionality? The way I envision it, there > would be a checkbox that basically enables or disables mp3 transcoding > for non-slimproto clients; if transcoding is disabled then the original > format (e.g. AAC) is streamed as-is.
I don't there's any particular reason this couldn't be done, it's probably just that no one thought to do it (or has had the time to do it). I can think of only two issues: (1) the mechanics of streaming vary from format to format and player to player - basic mp3 streaming is about the most universal mechanism which I'm sure is why it was chosen and (2) if your playlist contained multiple file formats you'd have to keep switching streams between tracks which would be basically unusable. Because of (2) I think an implementation of this would really have to have you select a single stream format (AAC, WMA, MP3, whatever) and use that for all tracks, skipping the transcoding where source format == stream format. EDIT: and of course if you'd like to see something like this raise a feature request at bugs.slimdevices.com. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
