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

[Alexander Staubo]

Check out Microsoft's Advanced Streaming Format (ASF). It supports
anything from audio to video to PowerPoint files. Microsoft includes a
real-time encoder with their free streaming tools. Download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/.

For information on serving live/on-demand content, check out
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/host.asp.

Unfortunately it's not exactly cross-platform, although iirc Microsoft
has ported Media Player to Linux.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: anthony@nextTelecom.com [mailto:anthony@nextTelecom.com]On Behalf
>Of Anthony Baxter
>Sent: 13. juli 1999 19:12
>To: zope@zope.org
>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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