[vorbis] RE: Audio broadcasting... (fwd)

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Is vorbis suitable for 33.6k/56k streaming yet?
> > Would be a good opportunity for some vorbis publicity, if it works out.
> You can only really serve a 11khz mono stream (around 20kbps) to 33.6
> users.  32kbps 22khz mono sounds great for 56ers.  You can hear a demo of
> this format at http://bumpy.braille.uwo.ca:9000/test.ogg (put this in your
> player, don't click on it).

Ok this sounds great, but I think they will also want to stream to 33.6k..
Do you have a test stream ?

> 2. I'll need a recommendation for encoding software
> Either use the oddcast DSP plugin for winamp (http://www.oddsock.org) or
> ostream (http://www.radiostudio.org/ostream/).  both seem to work for me.

What are you using for test.ogg?

> 3. We'll need a server to send the stream to
> Well, you'll obviously need an icecast2 server which you can get for win32
> (see oddsock.org) or linux/unix.  If you don't have somewhere to host it, I
> run one on a server with bandwidth which I am encouraging people to use.
> However, it is not my machine so if I were to offer this server, I'd like
> to know more info about the broadcast and some rough idea of bandwidth
> usage so that I can pass this on to the person who actually does own the
> server.

It's a talk show so it's mostly voice. I don't have any idea about
bandwidth, I'll ask.

-Dan


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