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Tasklist

FS#162 - Add an API call to select formats supported and auto transcoding

Attached to Project: Ampache
Opened by Marco Antonio Mauro (marcus905) - Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 02:26 GMT-8
Task Type Feature
Category API
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.5.4
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I think it would be beneficial to have a way for API clients to tell the server which codecs they can decode through a priority sorted list (and eventually a codec-specific preferred bitrate, encoding scheme and quality setting for each supported codec) so the server can automatically transcode the song an the fly or through the use of a cache before sending it in case it's needed (the song is in a different format or the client wants a specific bitrate/quality settings because it's in a bandwidth constrained environment).
Conversely there should be a way for the server to advertise which codecs are supported for transcoding on the moment the client requests the song list so that the client could be able to mark/hide the songs it cannot decode and/or ask the user which format they want for a specific song.

This would be useful because many clients (iAmpache, Lullaby and Amdroid, but these are just the ones I personally tested) support just some codecs (namely mp3 and m4a for iAmpache and mp3, ogg and m4a for Lullaby/Amdroid)

This would also require a multiformat transcoding subsystem, maybe using ffmpeg, sox or gstreamer as the backend.
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