On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 09:48 +0100, Jens Georg wrote: > On So, 2012-10-28 at 09:19 +0200, Mehmet Giritli wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to use winamp on windows with the ml_dlna plugin to play > > files from a rygel server. The music library is entirely flac and winamp > > can not stream flacs (it can play local flacs tough). So, I'm tring to > > transcode flac to mp3. I enabled it in the config file but winamp still > > trying to get flacs and fail since it cant do that. > > > > So, my question is, how is this supposed to work? I wrote to the author > > of the plugin and he is suggesting that "rygel has to exchange the > > FLAC-stream-urls with MP3-transcoding-stream-urls in its DLNA publishing > > service." > > Sorry, that's just wrong. In DLNA/UPnP-AV, the _controlling_ party (in > this case ml_dlna) is responsible for choosing the most compatible > stream and not the server for working around broken implementations. > It's not our task to present any random renderer with just one > compatible stream, we would need to implement half a controller for > that. Instead we offer a list of streams in various formats. > > Saying something like this is rather a sign that the "DLNA" in ml_dlna > is a false claim. >
Thanks for the answer Jens, it was very helpful. _______________________________________________ rygel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rygel-list
