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[Phil Sung <philbert@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 07:45, Jonathan M. Polom
<s0nic0nslaught@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, or I could just extend the decoders file. Have you ever used subsonic?
> It has a fairly flexible multistep transcoder. The user can specify decode
> strings and encode strings for streamed audio. For example, to convert FLAC
> to PCM to mp3 for streaming:
> Step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -v 0 -f wav -
> Step 2: lame -b %b --tt %t --ta %a --tl %l -S --resample 44.1 - -
> and these strings are user changeable and accessible in a control panel
> provided by the streaming app. I don't necessarily like this method, I'd
> rather it be in a config file, but perhaps an extendable transcoding method
> might be helpful for zeya. I'd probably use a python config file where each
> config block would provide the input and output mime types for the
> transcoder and a list of the decoder/encoder application names.

That does sound useful. I will take a look when I get a chance.

Thanks,
Phil