[vorbis] The Hour of Slack (vorbis encoded)

[Robert Jessop]

>>Can anyone tell me:
>>How do you make vorbis files streamable from a regular web server? Is there
>>some way to create a meta-file that when linked will launch the user's
>>player and *stream* the file (as with MP3) instead of requiring them to
>>download the entire file before playing? I've tried doing this with *.m3u &
>>*.pls files with no success. Do I really have to use an icecast server to do
>>this or is there some other way?

I can confirm that m3u and pls work in winamp. On your normal webserver 
you just need the ogg file and a m3u or pls file that references it. 
I've done it on my site: http://www.robertjessop.f2s.com/surge/listen.shtml
In most browsers files are fully downloaded before being openned in the 
registered application. So to get it to stream you give them a playlist 
to download, which then opens in their player, which then streams your ogg.

I don't know the exact symptoms of your problem but it could be a couple 
of things:

1. The most likely reason they didn't work for you is your player isn't 
set up to handle m3u or pls. Check your file associations.

2. Your player might not be capable of streaming Ogg (I don't think the 
current filters for windows media or real player are). Try a Winamp 2.91 
or XMMS.

3. If you just get text when clicking a m3u or pls link on your web 
server you probably need to add the mime-types to your server settings. 
I believe the mime types are audio/x-mpegurl for m3u and audio/x-scpls 
for pls.

Robert Jessop

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