MinimServer comparison with Synology Media Server

[simoncn]

(18-01-2014 12:41)david Wrote:  I am using a Synology DS412+ as a renderer and a Cyrus Stream X2 as a player and just tested again. As the differences are small, my findings might be subjective...
When I switch on transcoding on both sides, the differences are smaller, so I guess this would support your theory indeed.
My order of preference would be:
Synology Media Server ALAC > Minimserver transcoding to WAV > Synology Media Server transcoding to WAV/Minimserver ALAC.

This would seem in line with advr's comment on Minimserver's transcoding quality.

Is there any way to enable buffering with unencoded streams, if only for testing purposes?

I tried if transcoding setting alac:alac would provide this result, but unfortunately it did not work...

thanks for your help!

Thanks for this information!

There isn't any way for you to enable buffering for a nontranscoded stream. I'll look into creating a test version that does this.