Denon AVR X-1000 and the Pause command

[HCau1]

(23-09-2013 21:40)simoncn Wrote:  

(23-09-2013 18:59)HCau1 Wrote:  I have a Denon AVR-X1000 working well with Minimserver for MP3 and FLAC files. One last thing to sort out. The Denon pause command doesn't seem to work. For the (custom) tags to work perfectly it is necessary to transcode FLAC to WAV.
I can stop the WAV playback, I can even time seek backwards and forwards but I cannot pause playback. This seems to affect both MP3's and FLAC/WAV. I contacted Denon and they said (after some deliberation) it was a server problem, strikes me as strange but after some prodding, they indicated that AssetUPnP could pause (sort of ). I checked but then the format was transcoded to LPCM (the official DLNA minimum audio format).
In the end the Denon solution was to use WMP and a FLAC plugin from XIPH.org. and it worked ! so FLAC files can be paused via a network with Denon, however that was a very complicated and messy solution and needless to say none of the Minimserver functionality we all like so much.
Is there any way to adapt Minimserver so that the Denon Pause function can work (sorry for the long post, but this has been going on a while with Denon).

Please can you provide detailed instructions for how to set up the working solution based on WMP and the XIPH.org FLAC plugin. When I have these instructions, I will attempt to set this up and see if I can identify the mysterious DLNA pause flag.

MinimServer doesn't currently support LPCM transcoding. Adding this is on my "to do" list, but I can't give any estimate for when this might happen.

The details on how to install the XIPH FLAC plugin for WMP and also the plug in for album artwork/metadata in WMP are listed here
http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/01/playing-f...enter.html

They are very detailed and I followed them to the letter, including resetting the WMP databases etc. For testing purposes I simply added just one folder of FLAC files. The replay of metadata was very sporadic, but here we are simply trying to find out if the Pausing of a FLAC file served from a PC to a Denon AVR would work.

The results were as follows.
The DENON AVR X1000 would pause a FLAC file when used as a player (i.e. the 2 box model), i.e. using the DENON's UI to select and play a file.

When used in a three box model with both the Denon Android Control app (V1.6) it would not pause but would stop. On checking the DENON On screen status, something weird happened, it bounced all the way back to the top level - general high level menu "Network". However on pressing the STOP command in the app the "system" would resume playback of the file but from the beginning of the file. In other words It was not PLay/Pause, but a sort of hybrid Play/Stop-Restart.

I also used Bubble UPnP but here it would simply respond with ACTION Failed Code 501.

Hopefully you have enough information to repeat my experiments, I'll keep an eye on this thread to see if you need more information.