Re: How to actually use mp3-transcoding

[Mehmet Giritli <mehmet giritli eu>]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 09:48 +0100, Jens Georg wrote:
> On So, 2012-10-28 at 09:19 +0200, Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use winamp on windows with the ml_dlna plugin to play
> > files from a rygel server. The music library is entirely flac and winamp
> > can not stream flacs (it can play local flacs tough). So, I'm tring to
> > transcode flac to mp3. I enabled it in the config file but winamp still
> > trying to get flacs and fail since it cant do that.
> > 
> > So, my question is, how is this supposed to work? I wrote to the author
> > of the plugin and he is suggesting that "rygel has to exchange the
> > FLAC-stream-urls with MP3-transcoding-stream-urls in its DLNA publishing
> > service."
> 
> Sorry, that's just wrong. In DLNA/UPnP-AV, the _controlling_ party (in
> this case ml_dlna) is responsible for choosing the most compatible
> stream and not the server for working around broken implementations.
> It's not our task to present any random renderer with just one
> compatible stream, we would need to implement half a controller for
> that. Instead we offer a list of streams in various formats.
> 
> Saying something like this is rather a sign that the "DLNA" in ml_dlna
> is a false claim.
> 

Thanks for the answer Jens, it was very helpful.