[vorbis] Chat with ogg

[Akos Maroy]

Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
> 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.

a) yes, Ogg Vorbis can be encoded live
b) you don't want to do this for chat, since there will be a decent 
delay in each stream (more than 10s probably)

<p>Akos

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