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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: soren on August 14, 2005, 02:04:33 pm

Title: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
Post by: soren on August 14, 2005, 02:04:33 pm

When using library server there is always a severe lag when jumping within a APE song on the clients.
I found that FLAC is much faster.

Why is that?

/Sören

Title: Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
Post by: JimH on August 14, 2005, 03:33:24 pm

Is FLAC getting converted to MP3?

Title: Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
Post by: soren on August 15, 2005, 08:42:03 am

Not sure .. how do I tell?
Currently don't have many FLAC files, so did not give it much thought.

/Sören

Title: Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
Post by: mhakman on January 08, 2006, 06:50:08 pm

When I try to play FLAC files from a MC Library Server on a client without conversion to MP3 then I get following error:

“Media Center encountered errors while trying to play the last several files. Please make sure that the path in your media library points to the right location.”

If I let client convert to MP3 before playing then this works ok. I can also play FLAC files on the server and client without problems.

What can be wrong?

/Mikael

Title: Re: Why is FLAC faster to stream with library server
Post by: Matt on January 09, 2006, 03:10:27 pm

Make sure your APE files use Fast, Normal, or High compression.  Higher compression levels get quite a bit slower without as much gain in space savings.