philippe_44 wrote: > okay ... on "no pcm", the Onkyo receives the flac and send goes wild and > start answering with malformed UPnP messages. On the pcm, for some > reason, as you suggested, LMS does not do flac to pcm (I'm not sure how > clear is the logic that decides when LMS does flc to pcm transcoding if > pcm is first in the codec list) and sends flac and same, the Onkyo goes > wild and waits 15s before it asks for the next flac buffer (it is > obviously doing something meanwhile and I suspect it is parsing the flac > file trying to find some synchronization) > > All that makes me think that it does not understand the flac file and > likely it starts with the flac header - PasTim know very well how awfull > that can be. So, 2 solutions here. > > 1- Remove flac hears in the plugin options for the Onkyo. > if this does not work, then > 2- Although it does not seem correlated, you can try changing "HTTP > encoding option". The Onkyo does that funny HTTP request with "open > range" so you can try the various options available there, starting with > "chunked, open range". Do not forget to STOP the current playback if any > when you change paramaters, otherwise you might have funny side > effects. > > The "HTTP encoding option" shall be non-correlated to file format in > theory, but in reality it is. For example, Sonos does not work with mp3 > using "chunked-encoding" but does with flac - makes no sense, but this > is what they do. One hypothesis is that because "chunked-encoding" is > supposed to make sense when you stream something (i.e you don't know the > size of what you'll send), sending a flac header in that case confuses > the player as it is not expecting a file, but justa stream
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