AndrewFG;633926 Wrote: > Perfect! Thank you. > > If you are interested to know what is going on: the player makes an > HTTP HEAD followed by an HTTP GET request for the stream, both having > an HTTP RANGE header in the request. And Whitebear returns an HTTP 206 > Partial Content response. RANGE requests and Partial responses enable > server based seeking within the stream. The problem with server based > seeking is that when transcoding on the fly (especially when doing > multi step flac-pcm-mp3 trancoding), the server doesn't know exactly > where it is in the stream, nor can it calculate the full length of the > stream; and if the data is even one byte off, the resulting output is > garbage. => I expect this is what is going on here. > > However I think I can fix this. Give me a few days and I will get back > to you on this thread. In the worst case, the solution might require > sacrificing server based seek on such transcoded files... Thanks very much for your help and efforts on my behalf.
Please don't bust a gut for this. If I am the only one with this problem then I leave it to you to decide if it is worth the effort. I had the same problem with the foobar2000 UpNp facility as well, so it seems this particular box is a nuisance (to say the least). -- PasTim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87559 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
