Upsampling to 176.4/192 and transcoding

[simoncn]

(28-12-2012 21:04)Alekz Wrote:  I do not think that window/packet size will be affected in a local 100/1000Mbit network. The most vulnerable is 24/192, of course, but still well within switchable Ethernet LAN limits. The bottleneck here is the disk (and the disk interface) and the CPU of the server. For example, a USB connected disk, or a server running on a busy Windows box. Then WiFi.

Yes, I agree. The current FLAC to WAV transcoding using JFLAC uses about 20% of the CPU for a 24/96 file on a 1.2 GHz ARM NAS (QNAP TS-119). This overhead should be much lower when support for using an external converter such as ffmpeg or libav is available.