egd wrote: > Just wondering whether anyone knows how much bandwidth is consumed when > streaming lossless FLAC audio to an SB3. Bascially I'm curious as to > the point at which one would saturate an 85mbps netplug's throughput > capability (all else being equal).
You can get a decent estimate pretty easily. On http://www.pfarrell.com/prc/bits.html I show how many bits are in a RedBook stream, which is the raw, uncompressed PCM stream (wav, etc.) The short answer is that raw PCM takes = 1,411,200 bits/second = 176,400 bytes/second = 172 Kbytes/second Most FLAC files are about half that, so they would require about 90Kbytes/second To be safe, you should add in 20% or so for TCP/IP overhead, headers, checksums, addresses, etc. Thus one megabit per second, delivered is more than enough. Pat -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
