Re: rygel with FLAC (either Playbin or VLC)

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> Hi,
> Thank you very much for your answer.
> Pulse is indeed installed under Alsa - I thought it would make things
> easier ! I'll see this weekend if the problem is solved by using Alsa
> alone and making Hifiberry its default device.

It should also be doable (even easier than ALSA) by configuring pulse,
I just have not done it. It might be possible with
"pacmd set-default-sink " during runtime even.

> Regarding Rygel+VLC, I did not understand that the MPRIS
> specifications indeed included a list of supported mime-types, sorry :
> I thought this option was only set in each media player configuration.
> At least I understand the problem, now...thanks.
> "G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all rygel -g 5", only lists loaded profiles
> (AC3,EAC3,LPCM,AAC_ADTS_320, MP3,...but no FLAC, obviously). It's very

That's something different, there's (or at least used to be) no offical
FLAC profile for DLNA.

> long...and I think it ended before BubbleUpnp started sending anything
> (there is always a 1 second lag after I launch a track, before
> anything is actually played).
> Should I send it to you anyhow in a .txt file ?
> And would BubbleUpnp's own log be of any use ? It's very long too.
> Among other things, it states :

Yes, that's also fine. It uses proper FLAC mime-type

> [main (0)                    ] INFO     - 0:00:28.130    -
> AbstractRenderer            : discarding unsupported mime-type:
> audio/flac

That's the joy of UPnP without DLNA :-/