[vorbis] live streaming

[Zeljko Blace]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, smoerk at gmx.de wrote:
> >Can the Ogg Vorbis program be used to stream live audio
> >over the Internet? 
> yes, it's possible. you need the icecast2 streaming server (see
> i.cantcode.com/~jack/icecast.html). do you use windows or unix for
> encoding?
> >Put another way, can Ogg Vorbis doe what "Real Audio"
> >does, but without the onerous restrictions?
> RealAudio has to advantages: multirate streams and better quality with
> very low bitrates. this will change in the future, because the
> ogg/vorbis specifications supports bitrate peeling (something like
> progressive jpeg for audio) and the audio quality will improve (the
> encoder is optimized only for 44.1khz sample rate, but this will
> change).
> also most of the players have problems with live streaming, I think
> this is the biggest problem.
> But this is just a matter of time, ogg/vorbis tools are getting better
> and better :).
> 

One big feature missing ...
Good Player which supports wisual content.
Both quicktime and realplayer have support for SMIL and Flash 
which do lovely interface stuff for playing ...
And since SMIL is open standard+ falsh open format ...
maybe there should be a project that would bind this together
in some (Java? 4 multiplaform support) player...
SMIL already have opensorce JavaApplet 
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL
and so does .ogg with
http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/
there is even flash player in java (limited flash support)
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/1999/flash_sunmicrosys.html

...
or something Mozilla based http://mozmp.mozdev.org/

Best, 
Zeljko.

.. :::...::  ::.:::...:..:.:: .. .. ::..::: .. ::.:: ..
                    .plan as a mission
           

--- >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-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.