FWIW I have put this idea in our bug tracker (
http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/LS-440 ) so that we think about it. But
don't really expect something to come up anytime soon, this is really a
complicated matter...
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Samuel Mimram <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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