Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Bergowitz
bpa;209850 Wrote: > SSODS has a special mplayer called mplayer-stdout and special conf > command because of limitations in the Linux on DS products. I think > the following may work. However the processing power of the DS may > mean that only wma->wav may work. Encoding into Flac or MP3 may req

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Josh Coalson
--- Fletch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't mplayer support WMA lossless? ah, they may be using windows DLLs through an emulation layer. ___ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the

[SlimDevices: Unix] problems with SS 6.3.0, can I go back to 6.5.2?

2007-06-19 Thread mgh
Hi All, A short history; I am very much the newbie to Linux. I have XP, Ubuntu, and two or three days ago added LinuxMint. When I installed SS in Ubuntu, I got V 6.5.2. Everything works fine there. Yesterday installed SS in LinuxMint, and got V6.3.0. To say I am unimpressed would be an unders

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread bpa
SSODS has a special mplayer called mplayer-stdout because of limitationa in the Linux on DS products. I think the following may work. However the processing power of the DS may mean that you only wma->wav may work. Encoding into Flac or MP3 may require too much cpu to encode in realtime. Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Bergowitz
Fletch;209826 Wrote: > Doesn't mplayer support WMA lossless? When I try to set the file types to decode the wma with flac I get this : Required binary was not found: [mplayer.sh] -really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 128 -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Fletch
Doesn't mplayer support WMA lossless? -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36242

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Josh Coalson
wma lossless is proprietary to microsoft and the only decoder is on windows. best to convert to FLAC, which the SB supports natively (no transcoding needed). Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search th

[SlimDevices: Unix] .wma lossless and .ape

2007-06-19 Thread Bergowitz
Hi all I am running my SS as SSODS on a Synology DS107+ (128 MB) And I have a lot of .wma lossless, and some .ape musicfiles. It says in the wiki that the linux version doesn´t suport wma lossless files. Is that true ? And is someone working on it ? I am brand new to this linux stuff. So I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Distro Choice

2007-06-19 Thread mflint
While I haven't used plain Debian, I've had Ubuntu on two laptops for a couple of years now. With each release the installation gets easier, and the distro as a whole get slicker. I like it a lot. My slimserver box (which also does NFS/Samba/Subversion/NTP and other stuff) is a low-powered KuroBo

[SlimDevices: Unix] Distro Choice

2007-06-19 Thread dmce
Hi folks Im about to build a new server which will be used mainly as a download box and file server as well as having slimserver. Its based on a Jetway mini-itx board. I previously used Arch Linux on my old server which i was happy with, but just wondered if it was worth trying Gentoo or Debian?