The other way around: how does the data get into the player. For WiFi it's pretty obvious that PCM is a bad trade because then you have twice the data rate going through a complex encryption algorithm instead of half the data rate through the rather simple FLAC so with PCM over WiFi you increase your player load.
With wired Ethernet it's not that clear and a lot depends on your player and the network stac. But even there the chain is: Packetized network traffic->NIC->Network driver->player's input buffer->Player's playback buffer...l And that's only the best case and since the network traffic is packetized at lest the left of this is neither pointer forwarding nor simple block copies, --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
