pippin wrote: > They should still be lossless up to the AppleTV. > Some background reading: > http://penguinlovesmusic.de/2012/08/14/ipeng-goes-audiophile/ > > What happens is that iPeng will decode your FLAC to PCM, then the iPhone > will encode the stream as ALAC (another lossless format) and stream it > to the AppleTV. You do _not_ have to set the volume to 100% for this > step to be lossless since iPeng does _not_ do digital volume control > (unlike the Squeezeboxes), the volume information will be sent to the > AppleTV along with the lossless stream. > > The 48kHz thing is due to the AppleTV's HDMI output which only supports > 48kHz so this is the point where the bit-perfectness of course gets lost > but you don't have any lossless encoding involved anywhere. > > If you stream sample rates higher tha 48kHz, the situation is a bit > different, then the iPhone or iPad will re-sample the stream to 48kHz > prior to streaming to the AppleTV, the actual stream will again be > lossless, still no lossy encoders involved.
Interesting link! Thank you very much for the detailed answers both here and in the Ipeng service thread! And thanks very much for a truly amazing program with remarkable quality and possibilities! Sorry about the dobbelposts... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nordvest's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
