[Marius]

HI Chris, James,

Have you given the request for BDP remote connection some more consideration? Would be great to be able to connect, read drives, update software,  load new albums,  etc etc.

related to this: the request to play on the macbook/pc  locally. That is, not on the BDP/Amps, but on the Mac/pc/handheld speakers.

Since the BDP is a server, both must be possible. A bit like Plex for example.

Cheers,
Marius

[unincognito]

Hi Marius,

I want to create the feature, i just i haven't had the time to do it yet.  The remote (away from our home) portion is going to be the most difficult.  Judging from what i have seen in tidal the google chrome browsers will play a flac stream as well now a days, making things even easier.

Cheers,
Chris

[Marius]

Great!
Fwiw, the plex web interface works beautifully in Safari, will post a screenshot later of you're not familiair with it. No special Chrome demands necessary.
Im not even sure it downsamples like you suggested before.

Thanks!
Marius

[unincognito]

Only certain browsers support lossless formats, plex is likley transcoding your lossless into lossy on the fly.  If you list off processes (on the server) while playing flac in a browser remotely you'll likley see ffmpeg running and transcoding the file into a lossy format.

[Marius]

Ok ill try to check. But even if it does, it's fine, since the mac speakers aren't that great
It's just a very nice option to be able to play all your library from wherever you are. And it would be even better, not to need Plex for that, but be able to do it from within MM.

now, how to list those processes .... i am able to ssh in, but then?

HvBDiskStation> help
Built-in commands:
------------------
   . : [ [[ alias break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export
   false getopts hash help let local printf pwd read readonly return
   set shift source test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias
   unset wait


Cheers,
Marius

Only certain browsers support lossless formats, plex is likley transcoding your lossless into lossy on the fly.  If you list off processes (on the server) while playing flac in a browser remotely you'll likley see ffmpeg running and transcoding the file into a lossy format.

[unincognito]

Ok ill try to check. But even if it does, it's fine, since the mac speakers aren't that great
It's just a very nice option to be able to play all your library from wherever you are. And it would be even better, not to need Plex for that, but be able to do it from within MM.

now, how to list those processes .... i am able to ssh in, but then?

HvBDiskStation> help
Built-in commands:
------------------
   . : [ [[ alias break cd chdir continue eval exec exit export
   false getopts hash help let local printf pwd read readonly return
   set shift source test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias
   unset wait


Cheers,
Marius

if your plex server is on a linux system you could either use "top -c" or "ps aux | grep flac"
if running on Mac you could us Activity Monitor in /Application/Utilities
if running on a PC, Task Manager, under the Processes menu