Robin Bowes;131036 Wrote: > blackbear wrote: > > Interesting piece of hardware. > > Is that cpu really sufficient to do on-the-fly transcoding in order > to > > support formats not native to our beloved SB? I once tried > FLAC-to-MP3 > > transcoding and that ate up about 30% of a 1.2 GHz Athlon cpu. > > Flac->Wav is a relatively lightweight operation. In fact, most > decoding > is fairly lightweight compared to encoding. So, there's always .wav to > fall back on if you haven't got the grunt to encode to mp3. > > > Also, how can they say it is ideal for use as a firewall, when it > only > > has one ethernet connection? > > One of the optional extras is a second ethernet connection. > > R.
How did you do that nice quoting in blue? I merely tried the flac->mp3 transcoding in order to test streaming to a remote location. As for a lan, you are obviously correct in that transcoding to .wav (for the formats the need transcoding) is the way to go, for several reasons. A second ethernet connection is indeed an option. I have no idea how I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out! While the MicroClient Jr. certainly looks cute, the cuteness will be somewhat compromised by the external disk needed for user as a Slimserver box, in my opinion. Looking at NorhTec's site, there are some other nice fanless machines there, that are also very modestly priced, and that have room for an internal disk. -- blackbear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blackbear's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7015 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26692 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
