CJS wrote: > > Your response triggers two questions: > 1) I wonder why playback of ALAC files on PCP requires installation of > ffmpeg libraries. When LMS transcodes ALAC to FLAC, it uses faad to > decode the ALAC file. Can't Squeezelite pCP also use faad for native > playback of ALAC files? >
IT was only because we were doubling up using ffmpeg to do the work, future versions we will not use ffmpeg at all, just native libraries. > > 2) You say that when support of WMA is dropped in future versions of > pCP/squeezelite, it will still be possible to transcode WMA files with a > version of ffmpeg that works with my WMA files. I assume that you are > talking about transcoding in LMS on Linux (since transcoding using > wmadec.exe + flac.exe on LMS Windows already works fine) ? Can you > provide information (or maybe you have a link) on how to install ffmpeg > in LMS Linux for transcoding of WMA files? That is correct, LMS can do the transcoding server side. Windows machines can do as you said, non-windows machines don't have access to wmadec, and would need ffmpeg that worked. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the piCorePlayer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paul-'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58858 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112498 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
