[vorbis] Chat with ogg

[Mark Hetherington]

This is perfectly possible, but there will be buffering latencies and so on. 
I've done it with icecast2.

Mark

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:39, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> <olaf@ kjws.com> for every kind of mail, except spam! :-)
>
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