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

Ok. I see your logic. I will carry on testing tonight.
What time is it in Canada ? Get some sleep !



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