[SlimDevices: Beta] native WMA decoding in FW 19

2005-09-02 Thread Vidur Apparao
Firmware 19 (available with the next SlimServer nightly build) contains support for native decoding of WMA files on Squeezebox2 hardware. Playback of WMA files is now possible on all platforms (not just Windows) without server-side transcoding. This build does not yet contain support for WMA

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] native WMA decoding in FW 19

2005-09-02 Thread dean blackketter
A couple of things to note about WMA support: DRM protected WMA files aren't supported. WMA Lossless files aren't supported either, and in tonight's release the previously-working support for WMA Lossless transcoding will be broken. This is expected to be fixed once we can distinguish the

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] native WMA decoding in FW 19

2005-09-03 Thread Michael Herger
A couple of things to note about WMA support: This is amzing... everybody kept asking for this feature. And now it's here, but there's no reaction in almost 12h... This build does not yet contain support for WMA radio streams using the mms: protocol. Not _yet_. Excellent! Looking forward

Re: [Developers] Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] native WMA decoding in FW 19

2005-09-08 Thread Vidur Apparao
gingerneil wrote: any thoughts on when mms support may appear ? Current svn and the next nightly contain firmware 20 (and some server changes) to support Windows Media streaming. You can now play mms: URLs on all platforms, though this version actually uses HTTP (with some additions) to ma