blackbear wrote: > Robin Bowes;131036 Wrote: >> 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. > > How did you do that nice quoting in blue?
I didn't do anything - it's either your mail reader or news reader or the forum software, depending on how you're reading the msgs. > I merely tried the flac->mp3 transcoding in order to test streaming to > a remote location. As for a lan, you are obviously correct in that > transcoding to .wav (for the formats the need transcoding) is the way > to go, for several reasons. > > A second ethernet connection is indeed an option. I have no idea how I > missed that. Thanks for pointing it out! > > While the MicroClient Jr. certainly looks cute, the cuteness will be > somewhat compromised by the external disk needed for user as a > Slimserver box, in my opinion. Looking at NorhTec's site, there are > some other nice fanless machines there, that are also very modestly > priced, and that have room for an internal disk. They're not all that cheap, and mostly only have space for a 2.5" disk. R. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
