Twonky Forum

Hi,

this definitely is a UPnP newbie question, sorry: Does TwonkyMedia re-encode mp3s when sending them to a UPnP media client?

Most of my mp3s are encoded with quite good quality, I'd like them to be streamed to my SL400i as they are.

Thanks, bye

-Jan

Hi

No, there is no re-encoding, just streaming. Twonkyvision is "only" a server.

regards
Stephan

that's great news! i just wasn't sure because i found a /twonkyvision/LAME file on my server, but it might be for shoutcast streaming etc.

thanks!!

It does re-encode (transcoding, its called) some file formats into mp3 if the player would otherwise be unable to handle them. I think its flac that gets transcoded, or maybe its wav. That's what lame is for.

Hi,

lame is used to transcode mp3 to LPCM - a requied format by the DLNA. But nothing for "pratical" use right now

So do not worry - mp3 is not recoded or converted to other bitrates.

Thanks
Christian

Cheburashka wrote:It does re-encode (transcoding, its called) some file formats into mp3 if the player would otherwise be unable to handle them. I think its flac that gets transcoded, or maybe its wav. That's what lame is for.

I'm hoping someone from Twonkyvision will confirm if this is true.

If yes, is there a way to disable this function and just stream FLAC? I'm using a client (Z500) that claims to handle FLAC files. I'm hoping to listen to them without lossy compression.

Nigel wrote:
I'm hoping someone from Twonkyvision will confirm if this is true.

If yes, is there a way to disable this function and just stream FLAC? I'm using a client (Z500) that claims to handle FLAC files. I'm hoping to listen to them without lossy compression.

Its smart enough not to transcode for clients that don't require it.

Hi,

if the lame.exe ist there we can transcode mp3 to LPCM/WAV. If not we will not do this (so just delete the file). Lame is not used for ANY other transcoding.

If flac.exe is there we use this to transcode FLAC to WAV. There is no other use for the flac.exe. There is no flac to mp3 conversion. If still unwanted, just delete flac.exe

Thanks
Christian

twonky-christian wrote:Hi,

if the lame.exe ist there we can transcode mp3 to LPCM/WAV. If not we will not do this (so just delete the file). Lame is not used for ANY other transcoding.

If flac.exe is there we use this to transcode FLAC to WAV. There is no other use for the flac.exe. There is no flac to mp3 conversion. If still unwanted, just delete flac.exe

Thanks
Christian

Are there any plans to support FLAC to MP3 conversion? I don't believe the XBOX 360 supports WAV files, although I could be wrong. With the speed burst gained from the lastest version, I would like to start using MediaServer with my 360. However, the vast majority of my collection is in FLAC.

FLAC -> MP3 is not yet planned - but perhaps as a plugin....

twonky-christian wrote:FLAC -> MP3 is not yet planned - but perhaps as a plugin....

I run 4.2b3 on NAS Linsktation II MIPS and user Philips as streaming clients... Is there any way to FORCE Twonky to reencode mp3 to LPCM even though Streamium can handle all mp3 formats? I would like to see if there is any quality difference?

no way to force the server

twonky-christian wrote:FLAC -> MP3 is not yet planned - but perhaps as a plugin....

Could you please provide a WAV to MP3 plugin as well so we can play WAV files on the XBOX 360, I get a red circle with a line through it on all my WAV files (9000+) and cannot play them on the XBOX 360. Thanks.