drgeoff wrote: > I have returned to the quest of getting the bridge to play flac files to > my Jongo. Jongos do not announce that they can play flacs but they can > and the <allow_flac>1</allow_flac> line used to enable that. But > somewhere in the 0.3 versions that (or the subsequent Additional Mime > Types method) became broken and my Jongo was unable to play flacs. > Despite quite a few emails and Wireshark captures to Philippe last year > he was unable to identify the cause. > > Over the last week or so I've been trying out each new dev version as it > appeared. Somewhat to my surprise it is sort of working again. I'll > explain. > > The common parameters are left at the default values. For the Jongo > there are two overrides. Codecs has a single entry, flac. Additional > mime types has a single entry, audio/flac. > > With these settings the Jongo does play flac files. However LMS reports > that the VBR flac files are being converted to 705 kbit/s FLAC. Playing > the exact same files to two other renderers (different brands but both > based on Frontier Silicon chips) does not result in them being > converted. Also no conversion using Philippe's Chromecast bridge to > stream the same files to Google devices. > > In a previous post by Philippe he said that LMS is unaware of any > transcoding done by the bridge. I have no doubt that it is LMS that is > doing the transcoding. But why is it doing that? > > The LMS File Types has not been modified. The FLAC to FLAC is Native. > There is no modification to the convert.conf file. There is no > custom-convert.conf file. > > It appears to me that Additional Mime Types audio/flac is not acting as > a perfect substitute. LMS is not seeing the bridge+Jongo as having the > exact same flac playing capability as bridge+a renderer which does > explicitly declare its ability to play flacs.
The codec entry should be 'flc' not 'flac' LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103728 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
