[vorbis] streaming ogg audio

[Mark Hetherington]

So in a limited sense it should be perfectly possible with ogg? If the user 
wishes to seek, you simply resume at that point in the file, and then skip to 
the next frame.

Of course, this can't work with a "live" stream. But I am guessing the server 
will just "resume" with the live stream regardless. Does winamp detect the 
difference between a served up static mp3, and a streamed live mp3? If so it 
would be interesting to know how.

Mark

<p>> Yes. But I actually aggree with figyu's suggestion, that you don't
> really need exact positioning. In a minimal approach, you could try and
> treat a VBR file as a CBR file, and position by phisical file location
> (and HTTP resumre requests). While this would not be exact, it would be
> good enough for most uses. E.g. you listen to an hour long VBR file from
> a web server, and you seek into the 'middle' (by file size), you will
> get into the 'middle' approximately in playing time as well.
>
> The problem is that you have to 'catch' the frames of the file (either
> mp3 of Ogg Vorbis). But this mainly means that when your randomly seek
> into a file, you have to prepared to skit the data until the next frame
> starts.

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