On Friday 19 September 2003 10.48, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > Hello. > If I understood correctly, several companies are wanting patent > royalties for streaming compressed audio from the network. > > Take a look at mpg321 (GPL clone of mpg123): > > Usage: mpg123 [options] file(s) | URL(s) | - > > So, this playing from the network URLs is no no, or what? > What other software are able to play a compressed audio from > the network?
Well, XMMS is streaming a big 256 kbps file from my site as I type this. I think "Play Location" has been using streaming for quite some time. (And now it even manages to break up a bit, so I'm quite sure it's streaming. ;-) However, I don't know what decoder XMMS uses... //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- Audiality -----------------------------------------------. | Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. | | MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,... | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---
