[vorbis] vorbis rebroadcaster?

Scott Manley scott at myplay.com
Tue Sep 4 09:31:27 PDT 2001



Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> Are there any rebroadcasters out there set up for vorbis streams?
> 
> A weekly internet radio program is looking to add vorbis to their codec
> lineup, but needs a host to rebroadcast the vorbis uplink.
> 
> Right now they send Microsoft Media Encoder streams to Mindsnare who
> rebroadcasts it from there.
> 
> -Dan

Are you meaning transcoding .wma into vorbis for transmission? In terms
of audio quality this is probably a worse idea than mp3->ogg, oh and
it's also in violation of the terms of the Microsoft license which
forbids any transcoding of .asf to other formats. (Yes microsoft are
wankers....)


-- 
Scott Manley (AKA Szyzyg)
Streaming Media Hacker
www.myplay.com

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