There will of course be an mpeg-1 layer 2 96Kb/s bitstream as part of the
mpeg-1 multicast source. royalties have already been payed by the
hardware encoder vendor.
playback using a client that liscenses the the fraunhoffer IP such as mtv
(on unix's), windows media-player, or quicktime 5 is left
Given that audio recording and production is less expensive than
video production, and audio takes less bandwidth, how about audio
recordings as an alternative?
Whether we use GSM 06.10 or MP3 format, it makes economic sense.
Lincoln D. Stein suggests MP3:
http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/fea
