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

[Robert OConnor]

I have been using jfax for FAX and voice messages.  Really
cool.  You can have a virtual office in many big cities around
the world that accept both fax and voice messages that get
sent to up to 3 email addresses as attachments.  The FAX
is tiff format. The voice is GSM by default and jfax provides
a free recorder/player.  { see http://www.jfax.com }
It handles these formats:

*---Quote from help:
"GSM is the worldwide standard for quality and small file size of audio
files.
WAV is the standard file format supported by Windows (PCs) operating
systems. WAV files are typically 5 - 10 times larger than GSM files.
AU is the standard file format on most UNIX operating systems. "

Maybe GSM would work for you.

PS: I have no connection with jfax other than as a user.  You
can have your own free FAX or voicemail number or you can
pay for extra features and location of your "office".

-BobO Connor  bob@rocnet.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] any streaming audio formats that Zope can serve?


>
> >>> Martin Dougiamas wrote
> > > 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
>
> Played a bit with this - mp3 is expensive to encode, and also isn't all
> that great for compression for the data I have. The data I have is 12 bit
> 6kHz sound samples, and it's necessary to convert it to a much higher
> resolution format to use it with MP3.
>
> > Realaudio also streams pretty well over http.
>
> I need to be able to convert data on the fly - unless things have changed,
> the realaudio sound format converters are expensive, and just not very
good.
>
> Current plan is to play with using the Quicktime4Linux library to stream
> the data. I'll post more when I have had more of a play.
>
> (For those that are interested: the application in question is to allow
> a user to browse a voice message box, and select voice messages to play.
> It currently delivers a .wav file (generated by an external method) and
> the browser downloads it before playing...
>
> Anthony
> --
> Anthony Baxter     <anthony@interlink.com.au>
> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
>
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