Hi,
Unfortunately, streaming files without having to decode and reencode them is
not currently possible.
The rationale for this is that most of the time you want to have transitions
between songs or add jingles and for this we have to decode the files. In an
ideal world we should be able to only decode the packets on which the
transitions are occuring, but this would extremely complicate the
architecture of the code, so this is not implemented for now. Moreover, I
think that it is not so much of a burden since according to my experience
the degration of audio is not really noticeable and the CPU stays quite low
for a simple rencoding.
++
Sam.
2010/11/13 Shawn Boles <[email protected]>
> Hello! I've been running a Liquidsoap streamer now without hiccup for over
> two months... it's awesome.
>
> However, our streams are 128kbps, but most of our files are 192kbps... so
> our Liquidsoap server is constantly having to "mix down" the audio files.
>
> Because these files are only used to operate the streamer, having the extra
> file size to handle bits that are just thrown away anyway is kinda silly...
> but I haven't found a way to tell liquidsoap to just "pass through" the
> audio. What I don't want to do is "mix down" the audio files to MP3 files
> similar to the output of the station, only to have Liquidsoap decode, then
> reencode them and lose quality along the way.
>
> Is there a simple solution to this that I have missed?
>
> --
> Shawn Boles
> Chief Engineer
> AutoDMC Labs
>
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