[Flac] playback problems with oppo BDP-95

[scott brown]

Could it be metadata?  Could the Oppo be scanning metadata before deciding
to play files?

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com>wrote:

> On this note, is there any way to ask the current version of flac to
> create a file that is backwards compatible with an older version of
> flac?  I suppose one possibility is to go back into the archives and
> grab an older version of flac, then use that to compress everything.
> The trouble then becomes how to determine which version of the
> decoder your hardware implements, so that you can make sure your flac
> files are not too "new" for the hardware.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2011, at 21:01, Brian Willoughby wrote:
> > Ah, another possibility is that the oppo BDP-95 implements an older
> > version of the decoder, and it's merely new flac files that give it a
> > headache.  My friend happened to have an old version of flac
> > installed on his computer, 1.1.4, and that reported stream errors
> > with his files until he upgraded to 1.2.1 - if the oppo has anything
> > older than 1.2.1 then I suppose that might explain the decoding
> > problems.
>
>
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