wow, no floating point. i wonder if an ARM can compress in real time consistently? (streaming wav might be easiest. its uncompressed, so easy on the cpu, just heavy on the LAN bw. however, it might be heavy on the streamer too, i'm simply too novice to know. i think the more you compress though, the more heavy on the cpu)
so the beaglebox can accept digital audio from the DAB digitally, and it also has a rs-232 that it could use (via a script or something) to understand the rs-232 output of the DAB? basically, you just need a streamer that can handle the audio and pair it with metadata from the rs-232 source. this is something i will also need to figure out eventually for the station, how to get metadata (XML in my case) that isn't travelling with the audio into a streamer like shoutcast. (i want to pair the xml metadata with the soundcard input, which is analog off the air FM in my case) but i think you're in a tough spot trying to get a baby arm with no floating point to do all that, although maybe i'm all wet on that score. however, the metadata should conform to either id3, or ogg vorbis, (maybe even APE2, not sure anything else important exists) and either way, pretty much any client, including the SBoxen should be able to handle it. (getting the metadata INTO the streamer is the trick, it should i believe handle standardizing the output) my understanding is the metadata travels with the audio, simultaneously, but separately. its not "part" of the audio, like in a local file. is the beaglebox linux? did you look at the new shoutcast? icecast? etc? -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec & ipeng (parent's home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 43k+ mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81604 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
