[vorbis-dev] Ogg as container format

[Monty]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:42:37PM -0400, Erik Kruus wrote:
> Discussing Ogg... (good thread w. Kevin, Steve, Monty et al.)
> > 
> > > It comes down to this.  If your world is HTTP streaming
> > 
> > General unicast and multicast streaming
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  hmmm.  I wonder...
> 
> The multicast support that I can see is jack's comment in the 
> realplayer plugin README that
>   "Streaming doesn't seem to work but should soon."
> (Since the code seems more recent than the README, should this
> README comment be updated?)
> 
> It looks to me like RealServer would wrap Ogg in RTP.
> Why bother with Ogg if multicasting via RTP...

Sorry, I was being misleading here without meaning to.  Ogg is not
meant for multicast, but it is meant to be easily melted into a raw
form for multicast (RTP does nicely all by itself).

monty

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.