Sound quality comparison

[simoncn]

(25-08-2014 12:09)JimR Wrote:  I fancy trying this, but I use MinimServer to serve music to multiple devices, some of which can render wav24, whist others cannot. Is there any way to tell MinimStreamer to transcode for certain renderers but not for others?

Jim.

The correct way for a UPnP server to support multiple renderers with different capabilities is for the server to offer multiple streams in different formats to all renderers and let each renderer choose which stream format to play. If the renderer is capable of playing more than one of the formats offered by the server, it should choose the first in the list.

Edit: It is actually the control point that decides which stream format to play, based on the capabilities advertised by the renderer.

For MinimStreamer to support this, the current stream.transcode property syntax would need to be extended to allow a single source type to have multiple target types. This is on my to-do list for a future version of MinimStreamer.