Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

[Andrea Tazzari]

Hi Gora,
I'll be pleased to see the PhoneGap application done and test with our 
steams.
For your understanding PhoneGap it will able also to decode aac+ streams?
At the AurovilleRadio actually we have quite a lot of speeches but some 
music too in the schedule.
Regarding the live radio chat you can do it when you have real time 
broadcast. In Internet broadcast it's very difficult because the long 
latency factor.
Regarding the connections I'm sure we'll see in the next years we'll see 
in the G3 technology spread all over India at competitive prices.
At that time the quality of the sound will improve a lot.
Just matter of band-with and streamer's setting.
Cheers.

Andrea
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On 05/03/10 09:40, Gora Mohanty wrote:
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:44:20 +0530
Andrea Tazzari<andr...@auroville.org.in>  wrote:

   
Hi Gora,
Thanks for your observation.
I have circulate your message in our developer's team.
     
I have been talking to a friend of mine who runs an Internet
radio music station about building a mobile application for
the site. With PhoneGap, such an application can be used
across a large number of handsets. Music will obviously require
a connection with larger bandwidth than GPRS, but the front-end
application can be the same, and moreover, the interface can easily
be restyled with CSS.

Would be glad to take a shot at building such an application.
Due to commitments at work, it would be difficult for me to
commit right now to a fixed time line. Nevertheless, let
me know if this sounds interesting.

[...]
   
I have a connection @ 199 Rs/monts (unlimited traffic) with BSNL.
Soon I'll increase the band-with in order to test with a better
sound quality.
     
[...]

Auroville Radio is doing just speech, right? I really do not think
that music will work on a GPRS connection, but do you have any plans
of trying?

Another thought: If streaming speech over GPRS is working well, it
ought to be possible to send similar audio back to the radio
station. Thus, one could have a live radio chat, or something like
citizen journalism.

Regards,
Gora
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