[OT]Re: RTP Was: [vorbis] icecast2

[rob at eorbit.net]

On  7 Mar, Kristoff Bonne wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>>> 'rtp' what you said, is also a IETF standard (1889).. Icecast doesn't do RTP
>>>> because icecast is unicast (RTP is overkill for unicast and not widely used
>>>> for that). Vorbis multicast (done by icecast or otherwise) will use RTP.
> multicast streaming.
> Great. As a network admin, I've wanting to try this for some time now. Is
> there already some code available for this?

Obsequieum (http://obs.freeamp.org) and FreeAmp can do multicast MP3
streaming.

> BTW. What player do you need for that? (linux). xmms cannot play
> RTP-streams; and freeamp (who can) can't handle vorbis.

FreeAmp can handle Vorbis -- check out the recently released 2.1rc6. I
have a couple of Vorbis streaming bugs pending in FreeAmp that I plan to
look at this coming weekend.

--ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye   --    rob at eorbit.net   --   http://www.mayhem-chaos.net

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