INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: New MC22 feature: Sox?  (Read 10672 times)

mwillems

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 5175
  • "Linux Merit Badge" Recipient
New MC22 feature: Sox?
« on: May 19, 2016, 02:13:11 pm »

I was perusing the new MC22 features thread (I keep seeing neat new features added), but I was curious: what's "Sox"?  Is it the resampling algorithm?  Either that, or maybe a new Video scaler so demanding that the heat from your video card will warm your feet from across the room  ;D

Either way, sounds neat.
Logged

Awesome Donkey

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 7376
  • The color of Spring...
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2016, 03:31:12 pm »

I was perusing the new MC22 features thread (I keep seeing neat new features added), but I was curious: what's "Sox"?  Is it the resampling algorithm?

That's what I thought too.
Logged
I don't work for JRiver... I help keep the forums safe from Viagra and other sources of sketchy pharmaceuticals.

Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2) 64-bit + Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat 64-bit | Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2) 64-bit (Intel N305 Fanless NUC 16GB RAM/256GB NVMe SSD)
JRiver Media Center 32 (Windows + Linux) | Topping D50s DAC | Edifier R2000DB Bookshelf Speakers

glynor

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 19608
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2016, 06:29:27 pm »

Logged
"Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese."

Visit me on the Interweb Thingie: http://glynor.com/

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 71382
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2016, 06:34:07 pm »

A warm winter awaits.
Logged

mwillems

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 5175
  • "Linux Merit Badge" Recipient
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2016, 06:40:49 pm »

A warm winter awaits.

Winter is coming, get your Sox upgraded  ;D
Logged

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 71382
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2016, 06:45:51 pm »

I plan on washing mine.
Logged

TheLion

  • MC Beta Team
  • Galactic Citizen
  • *****
  • Posts: 437
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2016, 06:54:37 am »

If we are talking more flexibility regarding resampling algorithms and making all these options available to the video side of things as well I am  :)
Logged

Matt

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 41941
  • Shoes gone again!
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2016, 04:39:34 pm »

Just a little note that I got SoX working today.

It was transcendent.

So, something to look forward to in MC22.
Logged
Matt Ashland, JRiver Media Center

Spike1000

  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 641
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2016, 04:48:39 pm »

http://sox.sourceforge.net/ perhaps. . .  ?

Spike

v_erich

  • World Citizen
  • ***
  • Posts: 120
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2016, 07:27:24 am »

@Matt:

Great news, happy to hear this in 22.

BR
Erich
Logged

AndrewFG

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 3392
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2016, 11:13:42 am »

Just a little note that I got SoX working today.

It was transcendent.

So, something to look forward to in MC22.

And all those silly users that say we just sit on our haunches with audio features!

Does that mean you plan to replace the existing transcoder engine by Sox?

Are your existing transcoders hand coded?

A shift to an external utility makes a lot of sense. And Sox is indeed very good and very fast.

Does this mean that we can look forward to new destination formats on DLNA / UPnP push in addition to the current MP3, L16 and L24 options?

Does this mean we can finally get proper Seek() support in DLNA / UPnP push?

Logged
Author of Whitebear Digital Media Renderer Analyser - http://www.whitebear.ch/dmra.htm
Author of Whitebear - http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver.htm

Hendrik

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 10712
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2016, 11:26:13 am »

Does that mean you plan to replace the existing transcoder engine by Sox?

Are your existing transcoders hand coded?

A shift to an external utility makes a lot of sense. And Sox is indeed very good and very fast.

Does this mean that we can look forward to new destination formats on DLNA / UPnP push in addition to the current MP3, L16 and L24 options?

Does this mean we can finally get proper Seek() support in DLNA / UPnP push?



This is all entirely unrelated to what this is about. It only uses SoX Resampling to optionally replace MCs current resampler.
No idea where you even get the DLNA reference, as SoX is not related to such technologies.
Logged
~ nevcairiel
~ Author of LAV Filters

AndrewFG

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 3392
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2016, 11:42:10 am »

No idea where you even get the DLNA reference, as SoX is not related to such technologies.

Hi Hendrik,

The DLNA reference is because your current audio transcoder does not support seek to a time position ahead of the current output buffer size. So you have to wait until the transcoder run has finished before your HTTP server could support a seek on that part of the buffer file. By contrast, if you used the SoX transcoder instead of the MC transcoder you can simply call SoX with the -T time offset switch, to start a transcoder run at a specific time offset from the start of the track. Then you can pipe the output of SoX straight into your HTTP server output stream, and therefore support seek properly.

Believe me, if you think I am an idiot, I can assure you that I am not. I know very well how SoX works, and I have used it myself in my own Whitebear UPnP Media Server. If you want help on this, I can advise. I have been pushing for JRiver to fix this issue for years. SoX finally gives you the tools to do it properly, and rather easily..

Logged
Author of Whitebear Digital Media Renderer Analyser - http://www.whitebear.ch/dmra.htm
Author of Whitebear - http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver.htm

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 71382
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2016, 10:35:21 am »

Sox is available in MC22.  You can download from the MC22 board.
Logged

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 71382
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: New MC22 feature: Sox?
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2016, 10:59:35 am »

Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up