Hi again, MrSinatra;573081 Wrote: > however, if the computer is on the same LAN your SBoxen are on, then > however you broadcast, the SBoxen should be able to "tune into" it, > rather easily. just give em the local IP/port for the broadcast. > there are very few file types / stream types a SB can't handle.
Yeah, although it's not clear to me which support metadata and which don't. Perhaps just figuring out how to get an MP3 encoder compiled for an ARM CPU would be easiest (...and hopefully not suck up too much CPU time...); I would like to believe that at 192kbps or perhaps 256kbps it wouldn't really exacerbate the compression that was previously used. > i know SBS had a "wav input" plugin, and you could then tune the SBoxen > to SBS, but i don't think it does metadata. just soundcard input. and > SBS will only support a client or two "tuned" into it, as opposed to > SBoxen connected to it. > Yeah, initially while I'm working on getting things working at all I'll probably use the WAV input at some point... but eventually I'd like to stream directly via Ethernet. > > tell me if this is right: > > you have a DAB, which is a satelite/digital FM radio, yes? Yep. > it has a digital audio only output, yes? optical or coax? s/pdif? Actually it has both an analog output as well as a digital S/PDIF output. > the output is 44.1, but the source material was compressed before it > reaches the output, (either when ripped, transmitted, or both) yes? > thus you want to take whatever you get from it, and "rebroadcast it" as > TCP/IP in an uncompressed manner, yes? > Correct on all counts there. > your "box" is a small atom computer, and you want to use it to receive > the audio, the metadata, and also to do the "rebroadcasting," yes? Close... "the box" is currently a Beagleboard (http://beagleboard.org/ -- there are some variants as well, e.g., Hawkboards), so the main CPU (an ARM) is actually less powerful than an Atom. (Particularly since it doesn't have floating point support in hardware, and many encoders -- such as the mainline version of LAME -- use a lot of floating point...) > > if i have all that right, to me, the trick is to find a streaming > solution that will accept the audio on one port, (the audiocard of "the > box" i take it?), the metadata on the rs-232 port, and then turnaround > and stream it all as uncompressed. > Yes, or even "a little bit compressed" if the compressor is relatively straightforward to get compiled and doesn't suck up all the CPU time. Thanks for your thought, ---Joel -- JKoltner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JKoltner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22531 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81604 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
