Terje;142976 Wrote: 
> I don't say it's a big problem, but the lack for FF/RWD, the transcoding
> is a more complicated process and therefore more likely to fail/have
> bugs. It also uses resources on the SS machine which is really not
> needed. Many people would probably like to use a very low spec "server"
> or NAS device which maybe cannot handle the transcoding at all
> properly.
> 
Go ask on the NAS forum. I think there are people transcoding on there
- for example running AlienBBC to transcode radio streams. The
resources used by a decode are very, very low, and adding a FLAC encode
as well still isn't much. 

> 
> I myself has a few minor issues which may or may not be related to the
> complex transcoding issue done at SS. Tracks are a bit slow to start
> playing, for the first NN seconds there are skips and when I sync two
> boxes they are never completely synced. Not to say that this happends
> all the time and the transcoding is the problem, but the problems
> starting tracks from time to time would probably be better if the
> server was not required to start wmadec and flac to start streaming.

Well it's easy to test, throw a few FLAC or WAV files in your music dir
and try playing those. Do you get the same problems?


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