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.
See the last TPJ article by Lincoln Stein about mp3/streaming/icecast and
mod_perl.
Grip doesn't do the encoding it's merely a wav reader plus a nice
interface to the encoding tools.
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