IIRC the synology DS111 prcoessor has not got good floating point so it wopuld ne best to use for transcoding AAC. With the Duets and synology or Pi as a server - use WMA service. Squeezelite would be OK with AAC so choosing iPlayer "no transcoding" setting should be the best compromise.
The BBC make small tweaks/updates to their service mainly Flash and it is these that usually require plugin updates. I don't believe the WMA has changed in years. I'm not sure about UK but outside the UK the WMA service is delivered by a different 3rd party compared to the FlashAAC and other iPlayer service. If it is the same in the UK you can end up with different quality of service on Squeezelite playing FlashAAC compared to the Duets playing WMA. The 3rd party's delivery network is also regional so it's possible for one region to suffer poor service either due to loading, maintenance or partial failures. IIRC the Flash protocol is better at adapting to network transmission problems than the http used for the WMA protocol (bigger buffers is the only mechanism). PCs have bigger buffers (and video requires bigger buffers) and usually provide a better service by buffering streams to smooth out "lumps" hiding rebuffering whereas NAS or small players do minimal buffering at network level which means any "lumps" can result in re-buffering to catch up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
