SamY wrote: > Thanks for this idea! I have configured the players in my A/V room and > bedroom to sync with their local Castbridge players and it works like a > charm without any transcoding in the plugin, albeit at the expense of > doubling the network traffic. However, because I am running LMS, the > plugin, and all the players on an old RPi B+, choosing the option to > transcode to mp3 in the plugin results in excessive cpu usage and > resultant hiccups and delays in the player audio. As always, there is a > tradeoff in resource consumption and, in my case, I have more available > bandwidth than I do cpu. Since we are not actually using the CC audio in > this scenario, I wonder if it would be possible to provide an option to > not send an audio stream from the plugin at all --- only the metadata. > Maybe a transcode format of 'Null'? I have no idea if it is possible but > it would solve the problem of having to choose between wasting bandwidth > or cpu when using the plugin in this way.
Youd have to send something, always, even if these are silence mp3 frames. Ill see if there is something I can do but otherwise you know a used Pi 3 will cost you very little LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614
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