Managing and monitor the several MS Stream Options

[simoncn]

The purpose of convOut in stream.options is to specify additional ffmpeg options that cannot be specified in stream.transcode. The convOut setting is checked to make sure it is valid for the ffmpeg command but MinimStreamer does not attempt to check for duplication or conflict between convOut settings and stream.transcode settings.

If you have specified -af aresample=resampler=soxr in convOut and libsoxr is available in the ffmpeg executable that you are using, ffmpeg will use libsoxr for transcoding. I don't know whether ffmpeg reports an error if you have specified this and libsoxr isn't available.

I agree with your comments about bit depth and upsampling. Many DACs do upsampling internally and this can produce better results than having ffmpeg do it. For bit depth, it is often beneficial to use transcoding to expand bit depth to the maximum that the DAC can handle. The only way to be sure is to listen.