[Icecast-dev] Ices2 and libshout FLAC support?

[Stefan de Konink]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 kastein at WPI.EDU wrote:

> wow, thanks for the quick reply!
>
> >
> > My suggestion: try out the ffmpeg flac thingie since that speed
> > improvement is unreal in compare to the normal flac :)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion - I'm reading the ffmpeg changelog and feature
> list right now, and it appears that it only supports flac decoding not
> encoding and decoding - is this because the documentation is out of sync
> with the code?

No because it is very new ;) It isn't probably in the CVS yet ;) It is
called: 'Flake' can be found on google with flake and flac.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jruggle/flake/

> Also, sorry, I misspoke - I'm looking to add OggFLAC stream capability not
> plain FLAC stream capability, though I have seen reports of Winamp and
> several other clients choking on Ogg container streams containing anything
> but Vorbis due to naive type handling.

It would be cool to do lossless streaming anyway :)


Stefan