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[Raistlin]

On a more general note, I do have a couple of questions about MediaCenter in general.



1) The options for audio trancoding is currently MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and MPC.  Is it possible to add others?  What I am hoping for is a way to transcode FLAC to WAVE, so I can keep everything lossless.  Is this possible, or something that is planned?

2) Does MediaCenter offer video transcoding.  If not, is it something that is being considered for the future?

[horse]

Raistlin,

If you search the forum you will find the answers.

WAV streaming and on the fly conversion has been covered a few times.

As for video transcoding I hope you have some big CPU's. I work in this industry and we use some very expensive DSP's to do this on the fly in realtime. Check out how long it takes a video conversion program today, whith the CPU pegged.

[Raistlin]

Thanks ... I'll try to search for the info (sorry, I'm new here).




As for video transcoding, I'm using TVersity right now ... and am able to do it with a PC that isn't exactly top of the line.

[Raistlin]

Horse,

So I guess it ain't possible



http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=40723.0

[horse]

yep that is one of the threads :-)
I almost re ripped my library in FLAC for probably all the reason you have or are about too.
However once I came across MC12 and the powerful library system, I didn't need IDv3 tag support for my source files.
So I went with WAV and I have more "tags" to classify my music and video's than I can handle :-)
Now I am trying to find a good UPnP AV client with a decent user interface to compliment the server . . . . .

BTW, you now have me intrigued, what video files will Tversity transcode on the fly?
I tried Tversity a while back, however my 24/7 machine is W2K3 server and it does not work due to Tversity relying on M$ UPnP framework. (MC12 has it's own)

My home machine that I use for transcoding (and generating huge amounts of heat when it does) is a 3.2G Pentium (the Furnace version :-) ) and when I'm transcoding even a DVD rip to H.264 or Xvid in high quality , it cannot do it at a realtime frame rate. I wonder what the quality is and if it can maintain the same frame rates and resolution