[Zope] any streaming audio formats that Zope can serve?

[Martin Dougiamas]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> Playing with some Zope stuff that serves up a .wav file (dynamic sound
> content, mmm) it occurs to me that it would be nice to be able to have
> some sort of streamed content (so that the end system starts playing
> before it's fully downloaded the file)
> 
> Are there any "streaming" type audio formats that don't require a special
> server? Then Zope could just deliver this to ZServer (or Apache) and let it
> stream the data to the end system.

MP3 streams very well.  eg http://www.icecast.org  and  http://www.shoutcast.com
And there are free versions of decoders and encoders.  http://freshmeat.net

Realaudio also streams pretty well over http.

Cheers,
Martin

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