nickrout Wrote: > Can someone clarify for me - what formats are transmitted across the > wire to the streambox? Is there any conversion on the server, or does > the streambox do all conversion from the myriad formats it supports? I > had a feeling that everything was converted to mp3 on the server and > streamed to the SB as mp3, but I may be way wrong or out of date.
It will send audio in any format it can decode natively: - MP3 - WAV/PCM - FLAC - AIFF - WMA - Ogg (new) Anything else will be transcoded to one of these formats in the server. No transcoding takes place in the player. > > It would be possible to write a driver that takes the pcm output from > the average sound app and converts it to what the SB wants and then > streams it. NAS (Network Audio System) does a similar thing > http://radscan.com/nas.html . I sometimes use NAS to get sound around > my > house over the LAN. Yes indeed. This is an open-source project, so as they say, patches are welcome. It's fairly frequently requested and it would allow some neat features like instant playback of a CD right off the server's optical drive. But the fact that we haven't seen anything yet must mean it's more difficult than it sounds. It would also be OS-specific, which is contrary to the SlimServer approach. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25654 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
