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Re: Run Streaming
Doc, I am a Linux using sysadmin and avid net radio enthusiast.
I am an active member of the Radio Paradise community (not to mention financial supporter : ).
I am sure you must have heard at least distant rumblings of the coming levy by the US Copyright office of "webcasting fees so high that they would force Radio Paradise & many other Internet radio stations to cease operation."
For info:
http://www.radioparadise.com/?content=web_radio
http://www.kurthanson.com/
Don't let the RIAA jam this one through!
real? Run Streaming
being a linux user .96 ham radio..I have spent alot of personal time growing
with it.I don,t know if I understand the subject matter but seems to be about real.I have real on my suse73 and if I am wrong, kick me but are they asking for a monthly fee now??.real asks me to upgrade each time I use.I am loving linux because I still use alot systems apps that worked from day one and may very well for a long time.What real needs,is to be needed,not shoved
into or faces like Microsquash.
MPEG4?
What about mpeg4? Apple is making the jump. RealNetworks hasn't made any comments that I've seen.
MPEG4 seems to be the standard for the future. I'm not sure of the licensing details.
I hope it scales reasonably well. But in about 2-4 years high speed cell phone/cable/DSL/satellite access will *begin* to replace dialup with *minimum* stationary downstream transfer speeds of around 384kbps.
I'm looking to get my first GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) cell phone any day now and it is suppose to do 56kbps-114kbps. Service is already available but the Nokia 8390 GPRS phone isn't in stores yet. They call this service 2.5G, 3G is 144kbps-2mbps.
Once this is widespread and "unlimited bandwidth" is available I would expect broadcasters to begin to cash in. Maybe competing with satellite radio.
Backbones continue to increase capacity, routers don't break nearly as often as they use to. Broadband future looks good.
Chuck
Re: MPEG4? MPEG4!
Read this:
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2001/mpeg4.html
Cheers, A.
Re: MPEG4?
The MPEG4 audio licensing situation is terrible. Apple is previewing *not* jumping. Check out the recent slashdot article. while the quality of the codecs and compression may be better, unless they can work out the licensing issues, it will never replace the current standards for the purposes of the independent developer or underground broadcaster.
Napster all over again...lawsuits all over again
What prevents Shoutcast from becoming the next
Napster, ultimately castrated, either by
acquisition or litigation, and turned into a
diluted subscription service?
I hope for the best but I anticipate the worst...
Re: Napster all over again...lawsuits all over again
They'll move on to something else.
This has happened before, and it'll probably happen
again until the suits join the 21st century and realize
broadcasting as we know it is dead as the
telegraph :).
(Flame away, "disk jockeys', radio station execs, etc.) ;)
when Napster was around, there were many different
Napster like alternatives for the Linux community,
ranging from clones of Napster itself (knapster,
gnapster) to gnutella and a related plethora of
clients there (Limewire, etc.) and most recently,
Audio Galaxy. I tried Limewire for a while; it was
OK, but very difficult to pull down anything and
it could be a very big bandwidth hog, even on
a DSL line.
Now, Audiogalaxy is crippled - try looking for
any popular band out there and over half the
songs are blocked out. I guess the execs
found out. Some places (mp3.com for instance)
skirt the issue entirely, by offering really obscure
renditions (think Beethoven's 3rd symphony
performed by an obscure orchestra in Kuala
Lumpur, for instance).
Live365 seems to be very popular, and there's
nearly everything there, but of course you can't
save the content yoruself. I suppose that might be
one of the reasons the execs haven't gone
against them yet.
Re: Napster all over again...lawsuits all over again
Two things:
1) They should move to streaming .ogg format (maybe this is supported already)2) Only broadcast music from unsigned artists and independant labels.Doing that, they should be able to avoid litigation.
Re: Napster all over again...lawsuits all over again
"2) Only broadcast music from unsigned artists and independant labels." - that's like saying napster/kazaa users should only download music they own, we all know it won't happen.
Open Source Streaming Platform
Plese check text
Open Source Streaming Platform
on my blog
http://people.itu.int/~pantic/
Re: Open Source Streaming Platform
Woops. I believe you meant this. I get 404s on your working examples, but it looks real good.
Re: Open Source Streaming Platform
Is this what you're talking about?
Looks interesting. How's it going so far?
Re: Run Streaming
As an ex-Real employee, I can confirm the comments above about Linux being used internally. I'm not sure what he's talking about as far as "we could have had a really good Linux player" goes -- from what I can tell the Linux player is functionally identical to the Windows version. (You'll note the Real-based HP Digital Entertainment center runs Linux, for instance. I worked on the team that did the server-side work for that.)
What I can't see is what incentive there is for Real to go open-source or embrace Ogg Vorbis. Real's whole business model is based around getting content locked into the closed RealAudio and RealVideo formats -- that's what keeps them alive. If they opened their codecs, what would we need them for?
Anyway, we don't need Real to open-source their codecs; we just need Icecast 2.0. :) Eventually the radio stations will come around.
Re: Run Streaming
I can't speak for how well the windows version works, but the realplayer, when used on a station broadcasting at 96kb, will require 95% of my pentium 266. xmms needs 5% at 128kb. Was the realplayer compiled without -O? What could it possibly be doing?
Re: Run Streaming
I agree with this statement. IceCase is so much nicer then ShoutCast. Don't ask me why, I just know that it sounds a heck of alot better and stands more sturdy on my player. I mean, if I listen to a shoutcast server at my class, I get "skippy" stations. If I listen to IceCast, I get awesome cd quality at low bandwidths. IceCast @ 31.2K-64K provide extremely good quality on the web as compared with RealAudio and ShoutCast at the same compression levels.
Re: Run Streaming
Doc, even if you use Ogg Vorbis, write your own songs, and can put together a studio and a server out of junk, bandwidth costs will eat you alive as soon as you get popular.
The missing piece is either (1) write a good p2p streaming system that spreads the bandwidth demand among all listeners or (2)get all ISPs to turn on multicast or provide IPv6 service.
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dmarti said:
You mean like PeerCast?
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Radio Paradise seems to be scaling, with increased voluntary payments covering increased bandwidth demand. Bill Goldsmith says they're actually making a little bit of money.
We're also not talking about a huge amount of demand, realistically, right now, given this line copied from the RP site: "Currently, 778 listeners are enjoying Radio Paradise - 2.7% of the total Shoutcast listenership of 29278."
I'd like to create a personal listening fund that distributes itself with my listening. Maybe some kind of XML/Jabber hack would do the job.