blackbear wrote: > Interesting piece of hardware. > Is that cpu really sufficient to do on-the-fly transcoding in order to > support formats not native to our beloved SB? I once tried FLAC-to-MP3 > transcoding and that ate up about 30% of a 1.2 GHz Athlon cpu.
Flac->Wav is a relatively lightweight operation. In fact, most decoding is fairly lightweight compared to encoding. So, there's always .wav to fall back on if you haven't got the grunt to encode to mp3. > Also, how can they say it is ideal for use as a firewall, when it only > has one ethernet connection? One of the optional extras is a second ethernet connection. R. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
