On Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... people involved in America's public broadcasting media generally seem
> to share a similar "grass-roots", community-focused mindset ...
But the people paying for it might not. :-)
> Of course, I have never investigated Linux options for streaming media,
> but I'm sure they exist.
There is still a lot that is not available on Linux.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> They are not paying for the Microsoft streaming audio stuff... Microsoft
> gives it away if they sign an exlusivity contract of some kind...
> otherwise, most of the people I know in Public Radio would rather use
> realaudio... but it's expensive...
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that National *Public* Radio is
letting themselves be locked into a closed platform by an illegal monopoly?
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> Obviously MS isn't going to port their streaming media server to Linux.
There were rumors that this was actually going to happen, or rather, that
they would permit a third party to do so. I suspect this was just vaporware
to stall more anti-trust action, though.
> How can Linux be a low cost solution?
Find someone to write the software and give it away for free, just like the
rest of Linux. :-)
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> I believe, though, that [Ogg Vorbis] was a replacement for MP3 format, not
> for real-time streaming.
MP3 is a streamed format. There is no header or other special, required
metadata; you can pick up the stream anywhere. The problems are that MP3 is
too bandwidth-intensive for your average Internet connection, and it has no
facility to dynamically adjust the bitrate based on connection quality. I
would think the same properties would apply to Ogg Vorbis, although I do not
know for sure.
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