Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

[PeteManchester]

(27-11-2013 16:33)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for this pointer to the probable cause of the problem.

I am using the hard-float version. I believe Raspbian (as opposed to Debian) is always hard-float. Are you using hard-float Raspbian as well?

I installed the full Raspbian image earlier this year (about March or April) and I have just done a full upgrade to the the latest levels of all packages using apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. However, this would not install any new packages that are now part of the latest image but weren't part of the image I originally installed (for example, Oracle Java).

I've done some customization of my image, so it would be extra work for me to start again from scratch with the latest image, especially as I didn't make complete notes on everything that I customized.

I have chosen to install libav/avconv on my Pi instead of FFmpeg. On Debian, libav is preferred to ffmpeg, and the Debian ffmpeg package is a deprecated wrapper that calls libav. I will investigate whether mpd can be configured to use libav/avconv instead of ffmpeg.

Hi Simon,

I've got it working on both hardfloat and softfloat, although I've not tested wav16 and 32 on the softfloat yet.

Sorry I'm on a steep learning curve with mpd at the moment, it looks like mpd does use libav as you suggest. I found these instructions on how to compile mpd and libav is part of the pre reqs.