
Control points and media renderers most commonly run on separate devices, the control point being for example a tablet, and the renderer a television or a networked audio computer connected to an audio receiver. What is a UPnP renderer?Ī UPnP media renderer performs the actual audio or video rendering.

High- resolution audio is defined as an audio format with more than 16 bits per sample.

Can Windows Media Player play high resolution audio?īoth the Windows Media Audio 9 Professional codec and the Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless codec support high- resolution audio. Services like Tidal and Spotify make this possible, and high bit-rates make CD quality sound possible to stream.

Where can you stream FLAC? With the advent of apps available on most devices and even desktops, you can literally stream FLAC anywhere you have an internet connection. The UPnP/ DLNA standard lossless format is called LPCM, also known as L16 this is a linear pcm format based on 16-bit samples that supports a choice of bitrates and channels: 44100hz, 48000hz, 1-channel, 2-channel are the most common, but 96000hz might also in theory be allowed.
