Hi!

It's great! Shortly I tried many players (MPC, VLC, MPlayer) to serve my av-receiver (yamaha rx-v2700) with 5.1 dd and dts sound via spdif-out of my audigy 2 nx. I'm sure some of you get it to work somehow, but I didn't make it (at least with dts). Then I found the foobar plugins foo_dts, foo_spdif, foo_ac3 and it easily works like a charme. Again and again foobar2000 beats them all :-) Thanks to all programmers involved!

But there is one major subject I strongly miss and let me think about changing to MS Media Player (I don't like that imagine and hopefully only didn't find the existing solution for foobar yet): More and more AV-receivers support network functionality. I'm not an expert in this, but it has something to do with upnp and/or dlna media server protokoll(?). That is not available for foobar now as far as I know.

There are media server like twonky that work well. But I don't want to select the music with the av-receiver. I would like to send the music to the receiver (preferable via foobar). The advantage to my actual solution via spdif would be less cable, since the receiver is already connected via lan, no need of a soundcard(?) and possible longer cables (ethernet instead of coax cinch or optical).

So, experts out there! Is it realy impossible or so difficult to program such a plugin that creates a stream-output via ethernet to the receivers? It somehow should fool the receiver thinking it is connected to internet radio ;-)

I've installed
http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/
and
http://www.icecast.org/

It allows you to configure foobar for broadcasting any number of streams (with any quality up to lossless) over internet ;)

Excuse mi ignorance but...what are the differences between both of them?... Why do you use two streaming servers?
Are they complementary?

actually not sure how it works...
just found some manual on the net and got it work

Thx for your hint, it leads me to THE solution :-). I already tried that before, but didn't get the receiver show up the stream. But today I got it. I had to add the local stream address into the vtuner-database (http://yradio.vtuner.com) were the receiver gets the i-radio stations from. I can play anything with foobar2000 on the receiver via ethernet now. Thats great!!! Only 3 things are not optimal:
1. there is a delay of approx. 20 sec
2. I need internet connection to start playing (receiver must connect to vtuner)
3. 5.1 sound not possible via lan because receiver only accept mp3

If I have an icecast2 server running is it available from the internet? How can I make sure that it is only local (intranet) available?

1 can be fixed with the appropriate modifications to your Icecast configuration. It should be possible to configure Icecast to be available only to local IPs using normal network configuration techniques.

2 and 3 appear to be limitations of your receiver.

I have the same soundcard and am using spdif as well with foobar. However the three plugins you mention don't work that well for me. So I've deleted foo_dts and foo_ac3 and now the foo_spdif works fine, but you can only play one track at a time and then it stops playing. So I'm wondering how you set this up?

Hmm, I didn't recognize this before, but you are right, foobar stopped playing 1 second before end of file here too. I tried different settings with foo_dts, foo_ac3, ac3filter and foo_spdif without success.
But then I found this workaround:
1) as you mentioned only foo_spdif is needed
2) make sure you have set the soundcard driver to "SPDIF passthrough" in the creative device control
3) use foobar "null output" device instead of "USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX"

... but then other file formats are not audible :-(