[vorbis] Ogg Vorbis and streaming

[Michael Smith]

On Monday 05 May 2003 00:44, Henri Jylkka wrote:
> Hi. I'd like to ask a little about where Ogg stands today when it comes
> to streaming audio.
>
> The VBR has been the main argument in the incompatibility for streaming
> but has this changed somehow or will it? Is there something else
> besides quick and large scaled bandwith usage variations and the
> difficulty of buffering, that could cause problems?

In practice, VBR vorbis doesn't vary so much that it causes significant 
problems with streaming for most people. You can use a sort of constrained 
VBR where you set a maximum bitrate (but not a constant bitrate), if you 
really need to, of course.
There are _zero_ 'incompatibility' problems with VBR streaming - it's just the 
variation in bandwidth usage which could cause problems in some cases.

Mike

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