Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] DLNA Problem - Getting Flac files converted and sent as PCM /WAV files for DLNA item

2012-08-20 Thread andyg

LMS should already transcode FLAC to PCM for DLNA clients, no extra work
required... I know it works for my PS3.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] DLNA Problem - Getting Flac files converted and sent as PCM /WAV files for DLNA item

2012-08-20 Thread aubuti

bencat wrote: 
> Can LMS be set to convert all falc files into PCM / WAV format for
> sending to your player ? Currently I have a Sony Blu Ray player in the
> other room which can access the LMS server as it is DNLA compatiable but
> Sony do not support Flac so although it can see all the music files it
> will not play them as it comes up with an error message that this is a
> bad or unsupported file. Is there any way to get the LMS using the lap
> top that is running the server to convert the files into straight PCM /
> WAV files that the Sony will be able to play ? 
Before you get too far with this it may be a good idea to find out at
what level the Sony is declaring the file type as unsupported. That is,
is the Sony looking at the contents of the file, or only the name? If
it's the latter, then I don't think what you're proposing will work. 

Here's a test you can do. Take a copy of a WAV file, rename it to have a
.flac extension, and put it in your music library. Then try to play it
with the Sony. If the Sony won't play it then you're unlikely to have
much luck with the server-side decoding either, because the Sony will
still be looking at the FLAC files, not knowing that they will be served
up as something else.

And if you want to see a picture of what the LMS settings should look
like to send PCM from the server, take a look at section 1.6 of
soundcheck's TT 3.0 blog article:
http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/2011/11/touch-toolbox-30.html#more



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Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] DLNA Problem - Getting Flac files converted and sent as PCM /WAV files for DLNA item

2012-08-20 Thread garym

bencat wrote: 
> Presume that after 125 views and no replies that is is obviously much
> more difficult than I thought. Will have to consider getting another
> Media Servier CLient to use alongside LMS for my other DNLA kit/

search the forum for whitebear. This is one approach for using LMS with
DLNA devices that seems to work better than the official DLNA server. 
And in general, one can have FLAC files decoded on the server to PCM by
changing the settings in LMS > SETTINGS > ADVANCED > File Types. Not
sure if this also works when LMS is being used as a DLNA server.



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Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] DLNA Problem - Getting Flac files converted and sent as PCM /WAV files for DLNA item

2012-08-20 Thread bencat

Presume that after 125 views and no replies that is is obviously much
more difficult than I thought. Will have to consider getting another
Media Servier CLient to use alongside LMS for my other DNLA kit/



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