Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Transcoding while streaming to iTunes?

[Karsten Schmiedecke <Karsten Schmiedecke gmx de>]

Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:44:23PM -0400, Craig S. Kaplan wrote:
>> Thus my question: can I set up Rhythmbox so that iTunes can play
>> ogg files that are in the share?
> 
> Not yet.  Bug 330411 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330411)
> has been open for this issue for some time, but no one seems to be
> working on it.  I think it would be quite difficult to implement this in
> the existing DAAP server code in rhythmbox.  
> 
> This, stupidly enough, is because we avoid using chunked transfer
> encoding as iTunes can't seek properly if we do.  Otherwise, we could
> probably set up a GStreamer transcoding pipeline fairly easily.

To me, it sounds like whatever transcoding is set up here might be the
same backend for transcoding before writing files to generic (incl.
ipod) audio players. (just a thought). However, in some sort of dialog,
the DAAP-Server setup and Generic Audio Player Plugin dialogs, resp.
there would have to be a switch to set the default bitrate, plus, the
transcoded mp3 shouldn't have a bitrate that appears to be higher than
the input ogg file.