MinimServer 0.62 transcodes FLAC files to WAV

[simoncn]

(10-11-2012 14:41)winxi Wrote:  Hi Simon,

many thanks for the transcoding support, this is very useful for me for reasons of compatibility with my Sony home theater system. As you may remember, I use BubbleUPnP Server to proxy MinimServer as it was discussed here.

The transcoding from MinimServer works great. Now I can stream FLAC in high quality directly to the Sony device without needing BubbleUPnP Server to transcode it to mp3 first. There are two things I noticed:

1) Seeking does not work when MinimServer transcoding is activated

I presume you mean that seeking doesn't work on the Sony device, as I have tested that this works with Kinsky and a Linn DS.

What happens when you try to seek? Does the Sony device attempt to seek by sending some kind of seek request to MinimServer, or does it consider the track to be unseekable?

If you're not sure which it is, you can use 'Show log' to display the MinimServer log window and set the logging level to Trace to see what's being sent to MinimServer.

Quote:2) I was quite surprised to see that the Sony device will play MinimServer transcoded FLAC files directly without needing proxying from BubbleUPnP Server, but it still wont play mp3 files from regular MinimServer.

This might be related to missing DLNA information that the Sony device expects for MP3 files but not for WAV files. From the perspective of the Sony device, a transcoded FLAC file would appear to be a WAV file.