garym wrote: > p.s. I'm curious about the fact that my "file types" now shows "ffmpeg" > or "ffmpeg/lame" for mpeg-4 file types and previously showed "faad" or > "faad/lame" for mpeg-4. Does this mean that my local m4a files are now > converted using ffmpeg rather than faad? And what does that actually > mean? Is one better than the other? the same?
ffmpeg can do lots of different conversion but faad just does aac. So faad is small lightweight but can only convert files - it cannot handle http. LMS can strip AAC from simple http stream which is why LMS can play AAC stream such as somafm but AFAICT LMS cannot strip AAC out of mp4 streams over http. LMS rules deal with audio formats and not transport mechanism so changing mp4 rules means ffmpeg will do all AAC/MP4 conversion and not faad. Main loss of functionality is seeking - as currently setup ffmpeg rules cannot seek to a specific point in a file ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104480 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
