NAS hardware requirements

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(02-03-2013 15:48)simoncn Wrote:  The flac -> mp3 issue is caused by the much higher cost of lossy encoding compared with lossless decoding. See this thread for some interesting discussion about this. Doing flac -> wav transcoding requires lossless decoding only.

Thanks for this very interesting pointer. I've tried the ffmpeg version compiled by patters for the Serviio package for ARM architecture. In fact, with this it is possible to do flac -> mp3 realtime transcoding on the DS211.