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From: "stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Dave Ansell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>; "MVallevand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mvpmc-users] Cant play FLAC files
> Hi Dave...
>
>
>>>> On 4/6/07, Dave Ansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> I have just updated to 0.3.3 version of mvpmc in the hope I could
>>>>> play
>>>>> my FLAC audio files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately the mclient says it cannot open the file.
>>>>> The files play fine on my Slimp3.
>
>>>> FLAC support is only currently available in the native Filesystem mode
>>>> not in mclient.
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>
>>> Thank Martin.
>>> Will it come in a future release?
>>> Or is some other lossless format possible?
>
>> I understand FLAC is possible on the slimdevices.com hardware clients. In
>> order to implement it in mvpmc it has to be possible for the hardware to
>> deal with it and I need to understand how the slimserver software
>> communicates with the client as to which format is being streamed.
>>
>> Martin, perhaps you have already said, but does mvpmc understand FLAC?
>> That is, can you play such files from the mvpmc file browser now?
>>
>> As far as how it is done between slimserver and a slimdevices.com
>> client... I am hoping there is a clear cut method that only works on
>> FLAC files. That is, we might be in trouble if FLAC transmission is base
>> on the revision of the client. A higher revision might lead the server
>> to think that mvpmc can do more than it is capable of (for instance
>> displaying graphics instead of just characters).
>>
>> If you know the answers to these questions that would be a great help.
>>
>> ...thanks
>
> Dave, reading your original posting I realized you said you could not open
> the FLAC file using mclient. That's interesting, as slimserver should
> have been able to handle the transcoding to mp3. I am wondering if you
> have the necessary files on your server to do the transcoding (if there
> are any necessary - I should probably rip to flac and try this). Note, you
> are probably playing flac nativly on your S3 and therefore do not need any
> flac to mp3 conversion program on your server (again, if this is how
> slimserver works).
>
> Anyways, I assume the real push here is to support flac within mclient
> just like it is supported on your S3. I have looked into this and, as I
> feared, it looks like we would have to look like a S2 (aka SB2) before
> were are even offered a flac file.
>
> Does anyone else know for sure?
>
> Going on, what troubles me is what other features will slimserver assume
> we can handle at that version level. I have only found bits and pieces of
> information regarding this. Probably because the main push behind
> slimserver is to support slim devices' clients - which are well defined or
> at least stable. So not much discussion goes on about what is and is not
> supported. And, as I am not a PERL programmer, looking at slimserver code
> is a bit difficult.
>
> Options:
> 1) Someone could tell me what to expect from slimserver if I told it I was
> an SB2.
> 2) Someone could develop a slimserver patch to support the "oddities" of
> mclient (i.e. send flac to a version 1.0 client).
>
> ...thanks
>
Hi,
Good point!
I think I disabled mp3 conversion in the server because I wanted to make
sure that I got the best quality streaming (ie native FLAC) from the
Squeezebox.
I'm not sure what choices Slimserver makes and if it knows what formats
a player will support, and does it choose on the basis of best quality or
lowest bandwidth? That is why I configured the server to stream FLAC files
only in FLAC format.
If it can be done, then I native FLAC support the same as the Squeezebox
would be great!
cheers,
Dave
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