>>> 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.
Is it not possible to transcode to disk and then stream from there? Obviously, I wouldn't mind all my clients keeping around a small working set of transcoded files as overhead on top of 50GB of music. Actually, I wouldn't really mind doing that in memory either. I just stuck in an extra 512MB -- I have to use it for something. As an alternative, is there some other client I can use on OSX that will connect to a Rhythmbox share and play oggs? I'm not committed to using iTunes. -- Craig S. Kaplan If civilization is to survive, University of Waterloo it must live on the interest, Cheriton School of Computer Science not the capital, of nature. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/ -- Ronald Wright _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
