Move 'heavy lifting' to server (from client)
oliv3r opened this issue · 1 comments
Currently, the server has a fixed config, and the client will just have to comply. E.g. if the server decides a (computationally heavy) codec is used, the client will have to support it. If the client doesn't support a sample rate, the client has to resample.
While this can be the default behavior, it would be nice that if a client doesn't support resampling, the client will request a stream in a specific configuration, and the server will do the resampling. Obviously the server would have to be somewhat smart, to not resample every stream for every client when those are the same settings.
Likewise, if a client only supports ogg or PCM, the client should be able to request a stream in a format it supports.
This would remove some dependency pressure on the client (#1227) and also help with low-resource clients.
Wouldn't it be better for the clients to inform which formats they support and then the user can choose which stream to send to the group that is most optimal.
If this only applies to dynamic configurations, by means of the api