philippe_44 wrote: > This is part of what I had to do to allow players that support aac to > play mp4 streams but also to allow LMS to transcode when they dont. > Its true that LMS does not benefit from mp4 to aac unwrapping when > transcoding is disabled. Candidly, when I was writing that I was of the > opinion that the notranscoding option should simply be removed
That would place higher requirements on the server CPU and subsequently either rule out green devices completely or require them to be dedicated for LMS and even then you would likely run into trouble when copying new music files onto them while also listening. This said, my armv5te device actually does a pretty good job even with transcoding enabled (though last time I had it configured that way I only had two SB devices). The trouble started when I added some python scripts to my home automation app that also runs on that machine to pull data from a web service and the CPU load from python caused the players to start stuttering and sometimes even become completely silent for several seconds. That is why I require the notranscoding and really the only drawback is that I need to convert media files that come in `weird` formats (like Apple lossless) to native supported formats prior to adding them to LMS (effectively I recode everything to flac16 or if the original format was lossy to mp3). Honestly, if I had enough time I would likely make an attempt to rewrite LMS in C++. I know there's lots of people that dislike compiling stuff but at current energy prices the difference between 10 Watts and 100 Watts approaches 500 euros a year. That is money I'd rather spend on a nice diner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordonb3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117085
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