funkahdafi;312846 Wrote: > As a matter of fact I have darwinports installed :) > > But did I get it right that by using faad I will re-encode to MP3? I > really don't want to do this... > > While we are at it: How does SC decide which entry in the convert.conf > to use? I can setup multiple decoding entries for a single file type > (same thing in the SC webinterface, where I have three choices per > filetype). How do I tell which one is being used? > > Thanks, btw...
I may be wrong (please someone speak up if I am), but I believe that SC decides which transcoding option to use based on the capabilities of the player and a few rules. For players that don't natively support AAC I think it prefers to go mov->mp3 rather than mov->wav to reduce the amount of data streaming over the network to the player from SC. Streaming uncompressed audio over the network might choke a slower wifi network, for example. You can create custom rules for certain players given the player name and/or mac address if you want to force it to stream a certain format to a specific player, but I don't really know how to make a certain format the default. The easiest way I know of to tell what SC is doing for transcoding is to look at the running processes while a song is playing. If faad and lame are both running, chances are it's doing mov->mp3. I'm sure there's an easier way, but I don't know what it is yet. -r -- rdefelice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rdefelice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
