nordvest wrote: > They are 44.1KHz FLACs from CDs so the sample rate is probably altered > to 48KHz. But what about the bitrate? Is that still lossless in the use > I described?
They should still be lossless up to the AppleTV. Some background reading: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2012/08/14/ipeng-goes-audiophile/ What happens is that iPeng will decode your FLAC to PCM, then the iPhone will encode the stream as ALAC (another lossless format) and stream it to the AppleTV. You do _not_ have to set the volume to 100% for this step to be lossless since iPeng does _not_ do digital volume control (unlike the Squeezeboxes), the volume information will be sent to the AppleTV along with the lossless stream. The 48kHz thing is due to the AppleTV's HDMI output which only supports 48kHz so this is the point where the bit-perfectness of course gets lost but you don't have any lossless encoding involved anywhere. If you stream sample rates higher tha 48kHz, the situation is a bit different, then the iPhone or iPad will re-sample the stream to 48kHz prior to streaming to the AppleTV, the actual stream will again be lossless, still no lossy encoders involved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
