RE: open source friendly streaming audio
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:35 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:31:51 -0800
> >
> > 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....;)
> >
>
> For NSV and AOL Ultravox (my mailer is broken, i wrote the 2nd answer
> to another mailinglist-user :/) you can visit my homepage =>
> www.fileres.net where i've collected all informations, sources, files,
> etc. which i found
Thank you.
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