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apognu / otter

Music player for Funkwhale
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Transcoding support #17

Open f1xmAn opened 4 years ago

f1xmAn commented 4 years ago

Hi @apognu I really appreciate your effort on developing this application. I want to request the support of the transcoding option so that streaming via mobile network won't consume as much traffic as needed for fetching flac tracks. The ability to fetch lossy formats via a mobile network connection would be really useful. What do you think about it?

apognu commented 4 years ago

Is this something the client can request when playing a track?

I know I get several uploads, and I choose the largest or smallest according the "Media quality" setting.

I never heard about any transcoding hint the client can give to the server. If you have any information on that, I'll be happy to investigate.

Skehmatics commented 4 years ago

You can provide a to URL parameter to the listen endpoint to force transcoding, but it's pretty coarse as the intended use of that parameter is when a file is unplayable otherwise, so we don't get any control over things more important for bandwidth conservation (ie, bitrate).

I think to go forward with this it would be best to request funkwhale add some sort of maximum bandwidth parameter to this endpoint, which would only transcode when necessary to not exceed that bandwidth, and have Otter send different configurable bandwidths for different network types.