> > Steinar Bjaerum wrote: > > > ... > > > >Is the FFWD/REW done by skipping to flac frame boundaries in the server > >before streaming to the client? > > > > > Yes, we do some rudimentary parsing on the server to find frame > boundaries. This involves looking for a frame header sync mark and then > confirming that the header CRC is correct. The existence of the CRC > actually gives us a good confidence level that we're sending valid > frames to the decoder on the box. > > The same technique is used for FFWD/REW for MP3, but MP3 frame headers > don't contain a CRC value (at least not for the header itself), so you > can sometimes hear squeaks and pops while scanning through MP3 tracks. > Luckily the MP3 decoder on the box is very robust. :-) > > --Vidur
My follow-up question is then: Is it feasible to get FFWD/REW for audio being transcoded to Flac on the server. Steinar _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
