On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:02 +0200, Karsten Schmiedecke wrote: > Jonathan Matthew wrote: > > This, stupidly enough, is because we avoid using chunked transfer > > encoding as iTunes can't seek properly if we do. Otherwise, we could > > probably set up a GStreamer transcoding pipeline fairly easily. > > To me, it sounds like whatever transcoding is set up here might be the > same backend for transcoding before writing files to generic (incl. > ipod) audio players. (just a thought). However, in some sort of dialog, > the DAAP-Server setup and Generic Audio Player Plugin dialogs, resp. > there would have to be a switch to set the default bitrate, plus, the > transcoded mp3 shouldn't have a bitrate that appears to be higher than > the input ogg file.
As Jonathan mentioned, iTunes doesn't support chunked transfer encoding, which makes doing this more difficult. If I understand correctly, we'd have to transcode the entire file before sending it, which would mean keeping several megabytes of data in memory - per DAAP client. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of java that the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
