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what video formats does IceCast support?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:54 am    Post subject: what video formats does IceCast support? Reply with quote

I am going to run a small online school where instructors teach online thru video streaming. I wondering what video formats does IceCast support??

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

icecast handles ogg theora, but the passthrough handler (often used for mp3 and aac) will send through nsv.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry, I don't know any of the formats you mentioned. Does it support mp3, rm, rv, avi, etc??
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mp3 is audio only (not video), rm/rv are realmedia containers/codecs which don't have an specs and avi is a containter not a video format. However if the question is, does icecast stream mp3 then yes.

FYI Ogg is a container and theora is a video codec, nsv is a container which typically has VP3/6 as the video codec.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the clarification.

so IceCast supports video as well as audio. But as I saw some threads in this forum saying that IceCast's support for video streaming is not as good as Helix Server or Darwin streaming. Is this correct??


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't comment on those products as I don't know them well enough. Those products may have support for other formats, however icecast is licensed under the GPL so we may not be allowed to use some of these formats.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:13 am    Post subject: Re: what video formats does IceCast support? Reply with quote

ivytony wrote:
I am going to run a small online school where instructors teach online thru video streaming. I wondering what video formats does IceCast support??

thanks


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