[vorbis] Chat with ogg

[Olaf Marzocchi]

The last week, after 5 minutes of astonishment for the great compression 
ratio achieved by ogg (370MB wav of voice -> 14 MB OGG, 28 kbps without any 
perceivable and/or significant quality loss), I had the idea of use ogg to 
stream my voice, in order to chat in almost-realtime with a friend (only 
one, of course: I have a 56k modem).

Here the idea: I put a streaming server on my machine (I also have a linux 
machine besides the win XP one), I give the IP address to my friend who 
does the same (but he has a mac with macos 9.1).
I connect to his server with winamp and he does the same.
We speak to a microphone and talk normally (almost normally).

Is this possible? I mean, does Ogg permits the live compression? (or maybe 
does it require the complete source file?). If it's possible, please give 
me avices about software able to stream a live source to ogg format.

Thank you

Olaf

P.S. Am I wrong or IP v6 would allow a better delivery of streamed packets? 
I mean: send once and many receive.

<p><p><olaf@ kjws.com> for every kind of mail, except spam! :-)

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