Julf wrote: > It might minimize userspace CPU load, but it increases I/O load due to > having to transfer and load double the amount of data. For mp3, doing > the decoding on the server might actually make sense, as you can use > better software.
That's not comparable, have you tried? at 44.1 you could forget major costs (unless very bad and old Wifi), at higher samplerates the cost to encode and decode is far bigger, just try by yourself on your system. ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 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
