MikeMcr;628255 Wrote: > Apologies if this has been answered already but I couldn't find > anything. Does iPeng Playback do any local transcoding on the iDevice > and if so what formats are best to avoid it (to prevent stuttering on > slower models)? > If you mean local decoding: that's FLAC and OGG. OGG currently causes problems on slow devices (and even on fast ones if you do a lot of UI interaction). Currently preparing an update that will help a bit but not entirely remove it (the UI interaction thing).
HD-FLAC (24bit/96kHz) also sometimes causes issues if done in parallel with heave UI interaction but much less so. > > To enable Napster to work, I installed the PlayWMA plugin along with > mplayer on the server. However, on my 3rd generation iPod Touch, > playback was choppy especially at the start of each track. > That should depend entirely on the server. Could it be your server is not fully up to the job? This, too, will hopefully get better in another (later) release we are working on. > > I appear to have fixed this by going into the Squeezebox Server > settings, Advanced, File Types and under "Windows Media" disabled > everything except for Native and MP3. Was there a better solution, i.e. > someway to tell iPeng to always request a format it doesn't need to > transcode? That's interesting. I would expect mp3 encoding to require much more CPU load on the server than FLAC encoding. I'm generally seeing your issue, too (my "usual" server isn't really too powerful) so I'll have a look into this. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
