pippin wrote: > But it is.... > The problem is, that the Synology will probably not be powerful enough > to do mp3 encoding in time so you get stuttering simply because part of > the data is missing. Caching doesn't help if the server isn't up to it. > iPeng does already now stretch caching of _streams_ pretty much to what > makes sense with the Squeezebox protocol. That other thing was about a > completely local playback with playlist syncing/caching. > You could turn off the bitrate limiting altogether over 3g (note that > you HAVE to use iPeng's setting, the one in the server's web interface > will not work) but that's obviously only good for mp3 since with FLAC > the bandwidth requirement is too high. > > That's also why you don't have any issues in that foreign WiFi network, > there the bitrate limit if off by default. > > You could try to replace "lame" with shine on the Synology, that's > supposed to have enough performance: > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Shine_for_transcoding > > > That works. Does the WiFi network maybe block port 3483 or 9000(1)? > > It's an independent player so it also behaves like one. > To get what you want, you could use the "Switch Player" plugin which > will then show up in the player settings. It allows you to move a > playing stream to another player while it's playing. > Another option would be to simply sync the players and then turn off the > Touch and turn on the iPhone. > > Yes. iPeng just behaves like another Squeezebox. > > I like to hear that :)
Thanks for the the response and the pointers to more info; I'll check them out. I thought the transcoding was triggered by the fact that the iPhone was the player, but it makes more sense that it's the bitrate limiting. I was afraid of that specific issue when opting to use the NAS as a server, but got a model that people generally reported good transcoding performance using Synology's own audio app. I'll have to do some thinking about how to resolve this, or whether to even try. I will try shine. I'll also take a look at continuing to use my iPhone separately and try to sync up rating, playcount, last played, etc. metadata separately. I'll have to try connecting the iPhone from a different wireless network, since I don't know who the administrator of my first network is. I'm using port 9002, but that shouldn't make any difference, and I can connect to it fine over 3G. It's a guest network setup at work, which I assumed they left relatively open, but possibly not. Thanks again! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DubMarc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56796 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
