[vorbis] Chat with ogg

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:10:27 +0200, Akos Maroy wrote:

>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).

>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)

This delay is not from encoding/decoding process, it's from the
buffering in the streaming server and Winamp. Yo can go much lower, if
you send the stream directly to the client via UDP, but I don't know
any solution.

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