[linux-audio-dev] Streaming compressed audio from the network

[David Olofson]

On Friday 19 September 2003 10.48, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> Hello.
> If I understood correctly, several companies are wanting patent
> royalties for streaming compressed audio from the network.
>
> Take a look at mpg321 (GPL clone of mpg123):
>
>  Usage: mpg123 [options] file(s) | URL(s) | -
>
> So, this playing from the network URLs is no no, or what?
> What other software are able to play a compressed audio from
> the network?

Well, XMMS is streaming a big 256 kbps file from my site as I type 
this. I think "Play Location" has been using streaming for quite some 
time. (And now it even manages to break up a bit, so I'm quite sure 
it's streaming. ;-)

However, I don't know what decoder XMMS uses...


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