On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 07:43, Soren Harward wrote: > On Sun 04 Jan 2004 at 20:20:39, Kerry Cox said: > > I tried to talk BYU in using icecast, but they are sticking with Real. > > Their complaint (as is ours) is that it quickly sucks up the > > bandwidth. Thank goodness for our OC3. > > And Real and/or WMP (which BYU is also using) don't suck bandwidth? How > does the format have anything to do with bandwidth? My observation has > been that OGG sounds better at lower bitrates than does Real or WMP > (which sound like you're playing the sound underwater in an aquarium), > which would make it a *better* choice.
I dunno, I've listened to some Real streams that sound at least as good as vorbis, maybe better, at the same bitrate. But the point here, or course, is that it's about bitrates and how good stuff sounds at the desired bitrate. The only factor I can think of is that since icecast is based on HTTP there may be status messages and other overhead. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
