earthbased;187146 Wrote: > I am a little unclear on this plug-in and see no documentation beyond > brief release notes. Questions: > > 1) is it illegal to stream XM radio via Slim Server to multiple SB's? > > 2) if it is legal under 1), can this plug-in be setup under a plain > jane linux kernel or is WMA a barrier. > > Thx, > EB
I am not a lawyer, so I don't know the answer to the first question. In the spirit of things, I suppose that if you were to stream to only 1 at a time, it ought to be ok - since then the SB3 is no different than any other client for the web stream they provide. The second question is easy. No, there is no problem with WAM support on Linux. SlimServer only needs to have codecs for those streams that are not in a format supported natively by the Squeezebox. For natively-supported stream types (flac, ogg/vorbis, mp3, wma, etc.) the SlimServer is just passing the bits straight from the file/stream through to the Squeezebox without transcoding. I currently have my 1000-CD flac-encoded library and the Sirius and XM Radio plug-ins streaming perfectly through a PowerPC-based Terastation Pro NAS running embedded Linux and SlimServer 6.5.1. Since there is not transcoding necessary for any of these file/stream types, there is no need to have a codec available on your SlimServer host platform. And even the under-powered PPC embedded in the NAS is enough to stream reliably as long as not transcoding is being done. -Laird -- Laird_Williams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Laird_Williams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33522 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
