RE: open source friendly streaming audio

[Gary Koskenmaki <garywk@cableone.net>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:12 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:15:36 -0800
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to
> > start.... ;)
> > 
> > I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could
> not
> > listen to their streaming audio and received a response asking what
> I
> > would recommend as the person was very unhappy with what he was
> > currently using.
> > 
> > What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio
> > protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to give
> > this guy an intelligent answer. 
> > 
> > TIA
> >
>  
> SHOUTcast ist working great, its used by many thousands (or millions)
> of users without problems its using http (port 80 streaming is also
> possible for listeners behind firewall).
> also there are XPI Plugins for netscape/firefox and for sure for IE
> afaik there are no licences to pay for
>  
> if he want to use video-streaming too, he should give NSV (Nullsoft
> Streaming Video) a try, it uses the same plugins and can handle
> mp3/ogg/aac as audio. The video-codec it uses is only free of charge
> for non-commercial users but i guess a license isnt expensive, cause
> its already some years old.
>  
> If he or someone else need some advice where to get files, infos, etc.
> just respond, i have established a whole resource for all of the
> codecs and files.

Thanks Ben,

I will research this some more.  Can you give me some appropriate links?
I'm a little lazy today....;)