mrw wrote: > Well, I have been trying exactly the same experiment since yesterday pm > with exactly the same superbly beneficial result (I have two Squeezebox > radios that benefit). I was going to post the discovery, but you're way > ahead of me. > > FWIW, my command line specified aac output, but I guess it just doesn't > matter: > > Code: -------------------- > > > [ffmpeg] -loglevel quiet -i $FILE$ -f adts -acodec copy - > -------------------- > > > > I have a low powered arm5 - SheevaPlug running Debian Squeeze with > Debian's stock avconv (version 0.8.16) installed. > This avconv suffers from the 'stranded ffmpeg processes' problem, > which I solve with a wrapper script (already posted). I am discovering > that Parky's playhls.pl script also seems to solve the problem (I'm > not sure how :)). If I confirm that, well it is a somewhat more > succinct script. > > This avconv also fails on the '-nostdin' option. > > The Plug seems to be quite capable of streaming three separate > ffmpeg->flac encoded streams to each my devices, the two radios plus a > Squeezebox classic. Each ffmpeg process consumes approx. 20% cpu > resource on average, with regular excursions of up to 50/60/70%. > (Signed) PCM seems to be better behaved, with each ffmpeg process > consuming approx. 15/18% on average, but without much evidence of > those alarming excursions. So I'm likely to stick with the PCM route, > as my wireless network is fine with the increased bit rate. > > And, of course, the direct ffmpeg->aac passthrough approach removes > any issue, as I am now transcoding only to one player. > > I have noted some rebuffering on a couple of occasions, I don't know > the cause. But that doesn't look as if it is going to be a problem. > Time will tell.
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