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<font style="font-size: 8pt;"><p style="font-size: 8pt;">Hi There,</div><div>
</div><div>The nice thing of <a href="http://dir.xiph.org">
dir.xiph.org</a> was the fact that it supported more or less all formats,
this way we were able to send out different formats, where the listener was
able to choose his appriciated format from and listen to it, also the way it
all got listed made it very easy for a listener to see all te streams from
one station in the different formats.</div><div> </div><div>Besides all
above, not supporting AAC+ might not be a wise dissision, as at the moment
it's giving the best result at the lowest bitrates, although a part of the
signal is fake audio, for streaming it's OK.</div><div> </div><div>
regards,<br><br>Dennis<br> </div></font>
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From: Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org><br>
To: icecast@xiph.org<br>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:06:25 -0700<br>
Subject: [Icecast] dir.xiph.org only listing Ogg streams<br>
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Everyone,<br>
<br>
I have modified the yp cgi script on dir.xiph.org to reject non-ogg <br>
streams. As the site has grown in popularity, it hasn't scaled well,<br>
and maintaining the database was eating most of the resources on the <br>
server. We did some minor tuning a few months ago which helped, but<br>
the load has continuted to grow and was affecting other more essential<br>
services.<br>
<br>
Given Xiph.org's mission to promote free multimedia, I don't think it's<br>
appropriate for us to devote resources to the advertisement of <br>
patent-encumbered streams to the detriment of our other services. Thus <br>
the listing policy change.<br>
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If you'd like to see it put back, we'll consider if the yp mechanism is <br>
rewritten to reduce the load it incurs. Another idea is to sell ads as a <br>
fundraiser, but I'm skeptical whether the current level of traffic would <br>
pay for a separate server.<br>
<br>
Let me know if there are any problems,<br>
-r<br>
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