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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Subject: Re: Transcode support for minidlna (aka ReadyMedia)?
References: <20131118173729.GA8535@rancor.immure.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:31:06 -0500
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Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes:

> Is there any support for transcoding audio files (from flac to either wav or
> mp3 is what I need)?
>
> I've seen a few references to work being done for this but it appears to be
> focused on Linux and I haven't found any reference to FreeBSD related to this
> work.
>
> For example here's one promising looking site that makes on mention of
> FreeBSD:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/stativ/readymedia-transcode

Nothing there is system-specific (at least, not as far as I can see), so
it should build similarly on FreeBSD. If so, it would be easy to build a
port for. I'd suggest trying it.