Bug#539450: mt-daapd: Would be nice to have easy way of transcoding to something other than .wav

Package: mt-daapd
Version: 0.9~r1696.dfsg-6lenny2
Severity: wishlist

By default mt-daapd transcodes things like .flac and .ogg to .wav.
This works well enough, but when a client is device is connected
by 802.11b (as my Roku devices are) they simply don't have enough
bandwidth to stream the .wavs without frequent rebuffering.

It would be nice if there was a simple way (ideally a single
config file option?) of getting the ssc-ffmpeg.so plugin provided
with mt-daapd (and which I believe is responsible for transcoding)
to output mp3 instead of .wav.  I looked into the transcoding
instructions at http://wiki.fireflymediaserver.org/Transcoding_HOWTO
but they seem monstrously complicated and designed to solve a different
problem anyway (converting stuff ffmpeg can't deal with into .wav too).

Would have submitted this on the http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/
Feature Requests page but the whole site seems dead and overrun by spammers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mt-daapd depends on:
ii  adduser             3.110                add and remove users and groups
ii  avahi-daemon        0.6.23-3lenny1       Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.23-3lenny1       Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.23-3lenny1       Avahi common library
ii  libavcodec51        3:20080706-0.3lenny1 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52       3:20080706-0.3lenny1 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49         3:20080706-0.3lenny1 avutil shared libraries
ii  libc6               2.7-18               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-1.2            Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libid3tag0          0.15.1b-10           ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjs-prototype     1.6.0.2-4            JavaScript Framework for dynamic w
ii  libjs-scriptaculous 1.8.1-5              JavaScript library for dynamic web
ii  libogg0             1.1.3-4              Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.5.9-6              SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libtagc0            1.5-3                TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (C 
ii  libvorbis0a         1.2.0.dfsg-3.1       The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3      1.2.0.dfsg-3.1       The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

mt-daapd recommends no packages.

mt-daapd suggests no packages.

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