MrSinatra;173840 Wrote: > forgive me for being thick, but how does one take the massive SS pgm and > make it into a vxd? i thought someone would have to write a vxd based > on portions of the SS source code, to make a far smaller file.
No reason to: just a VXD that appears to Windows applications as a sound card... but actually captures the sound and redirects it to Shoutcast. Then use the "Tune in URL" thing on Slimserver to listen to the shoutcast station. > > if its as easy as you make it sound, i think a lot of cranks (like me) > on here may find nirvana... It shouldnt be hard at all assuming one knows how to write Windows device drivers. It wouldnt be at all crossplatform, but something similar should be doable on Linux and MacOS. > > i thought the SB was capable of playing uncompressed audio? Shoutcast isn't: streaming mp3's have to be fixed rate. > > but i would also want to be able to play a DVD uncompressed or altered > in any way by the SB. is this totally ignorant of how it actually > works? You would have to come up with some other mechanism than TuneInURL... though I wouldnt be surprised if it worked with WAV files. Ie, something like a stripped down shoutcast server that didnt even bother encoding to mp3, but had a "stream.wav"... Remember the way the Squeezebox works on native-supported radio stations is pretty simple: there is still the "control" connection sent to the PC with all the volume control and other stuff as well as remote codes coming back from the SB... But the SB is smart enough to do an HTTP GET for the stream itself... if it allows you to get a WAV as well as FLAC, MP3, OGG, WMA... (and I don't see why it wouldn't), then, sure, you could stream a WAV. The real trick is still "can you provide a VXD that can intercept audio on the way to a non-existent sound card and loop it back to be served to a network socket"? It is very possible on Linux... no idea about Windows nor how well that would fit with all the DRM stuff in Vista: I can imagine that is exactly the sort of thing that Microsoft would have a cow about and that it could be seen as a violation of the DMCA in the US since it would circumvent access controls. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
