on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:40:56PM -0700, Steve R. Hastings (steve@hastings.org) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Better to advocate open alternative streaming technologies. > > I agree completely. > > > MP3 is one such. > > Sorry, I do not agree. As long as there are patents controlling MP3, > MP3 is not sufficiently open. Granted. I'm not staying sufficiently up to speed on audio formats, I'm aware of issues with MP3 and promiting Ogg Vorbis as an alternative. I'd mentioned MP3 as I was aware that a streaming mode exists. > The current best one is Ogg Vorbis. > > http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Good link. > A streaming technology based on Ogg Vorbis exists; it is called Icecast. > > http://i.cantcode.com/~jack/icecast.html > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and 10-second snips of music. > What I hate is that with RealPlayer, I have seen "net congestion" errors > even the *second* time I play a clip! Can't they cache the whole thing > in a temp file or something? I've got the disk space. Ditto. RealAudio sucks in this regard. Caching is a key feature of the Internet. The fact that RealAudio specifically and pointedly breaks this is beyond dumbth. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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