On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> Jeffrey W. Baker wrote on Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:04 PM:
>
> > Consider just this once that HTML is not the preferred way to deliver this
> > kind of content. Perhaps the tutorial could be in the form of an MP3
> > file, with instructions to turn to the next slide periodically. The slide
> > could be HTML scaffolds around an image. Anyway, this has the advantage
> > of following standards and also allowing the user the freedom to move the
> > audio stream and slides independently.
>
> I like the idea of using MP3 but not being MP3 savy wan't sure that clients
> support streaming MP3. Also the encoding would have to be at less than
> 33kbps so it will play properly over modem lines. The slide/chapter info
> could be encoded into the ID3 tags and users could request any slide from
> the playlist. I'll have to dig a bit into Mike Oliphant's Grip or LAME to do
> the encoding. I am wondering if icecast software would work well for this
> application.
For voice, you can use very low bitrates with MP3 encoding and still get
acceptable output. The other nice thing about MP3 is that the clients
don't HAVE to stream it. They can darn well save it locally if that is
more convenient. However, all clients that I have used do support
streaming.
-jwb
