[vorbis] Vorbis newbie questions

[Daniel Brockman]

I will be interested to read your eventual O'Reilly
article. Are you in your journalistic research able to
verify the oggies' assertion that Fraunhofer
http://www.fraunhofer.de/ owns the patents on MP3 and
demands royalties?

db

--- Dave Phillips <dlphilp at bright.net> wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
>   I'm writing an article for the O'Reilly Network,
> and the focus is on
> streaming audio with Linux. I would like to include
> material concerning
> Vorbis, but I need some information:
> 
>     1) What's up with www.vorbis.com and
> www.icecast.org ? Can anyone
> say when they'll be back on-line ?
> 
>     2) Where should I go to get the latest Vorbis
> sources ?
> 
>     3) What players, encoders, etc currently support
> Vorbis ?
> 
>     4) What extra software exists for Vorbis ? (I'm
> thinking of things
> like the VCE I read about on this list).
> 
>     5) Say I want to listen to a Vorbis stream:
> where can I go to
> connect to one on the net ? What player should I use
> ? If I use
> Netscape, how do I configure it ? Is there an Ogg
> Vorbis MIME type ?
> 
>     6) What's up with Icecast 2.0 and Vorbis ?
> 
> 
>   I know, it's a lot of questions, sorry about that.
> In my defense, I've
> become very curious about Vorbis after doing my
> research on MP3...  ;)
> 
>   Vast appreciation in advance...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> == Dave Phillips
> 
> 	The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at
> http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
> 	The Linux Soundapps Site at
> http://sound.condorow.net
> 
> Currently listening to: , ""
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Daniel Brockman
Pacific Series Company
1-510-769-7805 
http://www.pacificseries.com
brockman at pacificseries.com

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