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Does Icecast only use OGG VORBIS

 
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Josh Camplin
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:34 pm    Post subject: Does Icecast only use OGG VORBIS Reply with quote

Someone told me that we can only stream OGG VORBIS and a lot of people dont have the right codecs/plugins to listen to this.... It seems it would just be easier to use mp3. I know this has probably been asked too many times, but do you have to use ogg like we are now or can we do mp3?

pro's? cons?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

streaming MP3 does require getting a license so maybe that's the reason you can only stream in vorbis but the non-lite version of winamp has had the vorbis plugin for some time now, xmms installations usually have vorbis and other players/plugins are also available. So listeners shouldn't have much trouble

With regard to Icecast, it has an ogg handler and a pass-through handler, the latter can be used for mp3/aac*/nsv. Obviously there can be many factors which affect which streaming technowlogy you use but vorbis is much better at compression than mp3.

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