Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly free -- ogg > over http using icecast. slightly less free but more supported on the > client side would be mp3 over http with icecast. check here
Some radio stations in Romania provide both, with ogg usually having slightly smaller bit rate (ex. 96 kb/s vs. 128 kb/s). This way intelligent listeners can save some bandwidth and still have the same audio quality. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
