bluegaspode;683557 Wrote: > As a developer you can only use 'native' Ogg if you are using Androids > inbuilt Media Player. > But the inbuilt player doesn't give me enough control to implement the > SlimProto protocol that the Squeezeboxes use. (I.e. I need the exact > playback position, not just a rough estimate to support > synchronisation). > Gapless playback and full control over the audio buffers is also not > possible with the inbuilt player. > > I'll recheck with Android 4 when it gained more market share, I think > they changed the APIs that developers can use, so I might be able to > use more of the inbuilt decoders. > > For streaming via 3G with high probability you'd have to activate > bitrate limiting anyway, which will essentially convert all your tracks > to mp3 on the fly (provided that your server is fast enough for mp3 > transcoding). > Most servers are.
I see! And you were right. I had to enable the mp3 bitrate limter. And everything works now. I had the problem that I have 64bit server, and had to install the 32 compatibility lib to make the mp3 transcoding work. Since most (all?) of the hardware players support ogg vorbis now, I wonder if it would not make sense to use ogg vorbis instead of mp3 (or an alternative) for bit-rate limiting. If my understanding is correct, vorbis is much better than mp3 at the same bitrate. I know ogg vorbis is VBR, but average bitrate is still good enough for most I guess. I know Spotify is using ogg vorbis. But this is not something that squeezeplayer can control, of course. THis is an improvement proposal for Squeezebox server. -- andreas.kagedal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andreas.kagedal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8741 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87364 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
