[Ffmpeg-devel] ogg radio support?

Diego Biurrun diego
Mon Mar 12 15:38:43 CET 2007


On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 07:58:42PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-03-05, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> > "Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net> writes:
> > > are there any plans to support Ogg Radio, a.k.a. chained Ogg [1]?
> > 
> > I'm aware of this problem, and I've been trying to think of a
> > solution.  The more I think about it, the more it appears as an
> > abomination.  Just like everything Ogg related.  No surprises there.
> 
> I basically agree. But it's there, it's free and it'd be good to
> advertise free stuff to the naive world who lives under the illusion
> that free stuff is always better than non-free stuff, even if only for
> advertising purposes. Let's not forget that for some people, this
> all-free stuff is basically how they see Linux. Virgin radio (who uses
> shoutcast), for example, gives a link to the Ogg stream by default to
> Linux clients. This is great, b/c it means they accept that we exist,
> but it sucks b/c only a few clients actually play this correctly. :-).
> Strangely, mp3 support is a lot better than ogg support in our free
> world.

This is probably as good an example of the ambiguity of the English word
'free' as you can get.  That said, I probably disagree with all possible
interpretations of the above paragraph.  Plus, I'm confident I'm not the
only one ...

Diego




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