Renderer specific transcoding

[n3mmr]

(10-06-2015 21:45)simoncn Wrote:  

(10-06-2015 20:36)n3mmr Wrote:  I have no idea at all any more, it's been two-three years.

Just look at the profiles. They're there because real people have used them..

Are you actively using this feature with Serviio at the present time? I had the impression that there is some transcoding combination that you need for one or more of your renderers and MinimServer isn't able to provide. Is this the case or have I misunderstood the nature of your original question?

My current need is audio files to send to a small number of renderers that cannot play flac.

There's a Reciva based radio, Argon inet 1, and a sony Bluray. Neither can play any lossless format except linear PCM, lpcm.

Most of my enthusiasm for the argument came from having the feeling you simply hadn't thought the issue of server side transcoding profiles thru. It is quite the normal thing in my world, and I just didn't like to agree to "it cannot be done, legally" as I knew there must be something I missed, and you too.

It would be nice to have, it can be immediately moderately useful, but it is by no means a pressing issue.
I have seen others asking about it in these forums.

Can we agree that there IS a way to do it, w/o breaking any compliance related restrictions???
You should ask, and take a poll, and decide if it's worth trying, or maybe asking somebody else to write some module?

I can think of two remaining issues with serviio's way; a renderer's IP might change, and there might be more than one, totally different, renderer at one address (think apps in a phone). Serviio seems (not sure) to solve the IP change issue by polling for type name just before starting a stream. I don't know if that could handle different renderer apps in one device.