[vorbis] bitrate peeling

Akos Maroy darkeye at tyrell.hu
Fri Nov 8 10:00:10 PST 2002



Alejandro G. Belluscio wrote:
> Actually, if you use a non degenerate Ogg stream you could put multiple
> ogg streams (same wav, diferent bitrates) in one ogg file. You shouldn't
> need much work on a server that already supports bitrate negotiation to
> use this kind of file. Or you could build your own by encoding multiple
> time and concatenating (thou it's different than multiplexing). But we
> have all that's needed today. We only need someone to put it together. I
> think it's quite a lot easier than making a peelable encoder and a
> peeler. It seems like a week of work to get something working (iff you
> have a server and client that already adjust bitrates).

But this would solve the issue at hand: how do you handle clients with 
fluctuating network bandwith listening to a live stream?

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