Renderer specific transcoding

[simoncn]

(08-06-2015 15:04)n3mmr Wrote:  I believe twonky, plex and most others do the same.

At least they all have renderer specific transcode and remux, via config files for the server.

I have looked through the Twonky renderer profiles very carefully and there are no options in there that change the type of the stream (e.g., from FLAC to WAV or from FLAC to LPCM).

Quote:The control point still tells the server to send a particular stream to the renderer, but the server interposes transcoding in the stream.

Minimstreamer/Minimserver is so far the ONLY server I have tried that doesn't do renderer-specific transcoding in the server.
No control-point I have so far seen has had any problem with this, and neither have the renderers.

Which renderers have you used that are able to receive a different stream type from the server than they have been told to play by the control point? What is the stream type that the control point sends to the renderer and what is the transcoded stream type returned by the server?