Nikhil;263257 Wrote: > > 1) If you want to access a remote SlimServer that has a changing IP > address with a Physical SqueezeBox (not with softsqueeze - I know how > to do that), is it possible to enter a Dynamic DNS host name (as > against an IP address) onto the device? Or alternatively can one of the > plugins on slimserver (such as Michael Herger's ServerSwitcher be > configured to do a DNS lookup and then allow switching to that remote > server via the remote (or the controller) interface? > Adding DNS lookup to the player would be the way to go for this, IMHO. I don't believe it's currently possible, but it would seem reasonable to add. No server-side functionality will work as obviously the player isn't connected to the server at the time of the lookup :) I'd take a look in bugs.slimdevices.com and add an enhancement request if there isn't one already there.
> > 2) I currently have my flacs transcoding to 192 kbps mp3s for remote > streaming, which is fine. But I was wondering if there is a way to > dynamically adjust the encoding bitrate in real time in response to the > available bandwidth? i.e. something like the Slingbox does - I have seen > it scale from 8mbps down to 96 kbps depending on what was available. > Which codecs support this feature? wma? hd-aac? open source? Slimserver only supports streaming as mp3, and it doesn't have any kind of autonegotiation. That kind of thing really needs co-operation between the client and the server, and the basic mp3 streaming protocol doesn't include that. I believe the wma streaming protocol does (and probably others) but they are typically far from open, particularly if you want to build s stream host. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42812 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
