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List:       novalug
Subject:    Re: Streaming Audio/Linux/Web
From:       "Kevin kitts" <kkitts () his ! com>
Date:       2000-05-29 0:56:01
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Thanks to everyone for all the great tips and suggestions both for the
streaming audio and LOC question. I've got enough to keep me busy for
days,... er.. maybe months now.

Thanks again,

Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Halllewell <hallewellt@rfa.org>
To: Daryl Lozupone <dlozupone@741systems.com>
Cc: Kevin Kitts <kkitts@his.com>; ma-linux@tux.org <ma-linux@tux.org>
Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: Streaming Audio/Linux/Web


>If you put an mp3 on a page with a cgi action that opens it with the m3u
>extension, then it will act as a stream and you won't have any need for
>any proprietary server or client software.
>The audioactive player is a good Free (and non-denominational) player
>for Winxx and MAC (though theMAC version is old and has some
>bugs)available at www.audioactive.com.
>The newer version supports long filenames but has a bug with the m3u
>extension.
>The older version mangles long filenames but handles m3u.
>We have found 16 bit 16khz to be adequate for voice, this comes out to
>about 7 MB per hour of audio.
>You can encode your audio using the open source blade/lame plugins.
>http://bladeenc.mp3.no/  There are RPMs available.
>Contact me off list if you want more specific info.
>Tom Hallewell
>Radio Free Asia
>
>Daryl Lozupone wrote:
>>
>> RealServer/RealProducer is the way to go. They are both totally free.
>> RealServer Basic allows for 25 concurrent streams, this should be ample
for
>> short pronunciations. Both RealServer Basic and RealProducer Baic are
>> available for the Linux platform. I currently am using it with no
problems
>> at all. It is running on a P200 with 96MB RAM and the RealServer hardly
>> taxes the processor.
>>
>> --Daryl Lozupone
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ma-linux@tux.org [mailto:owner-ma-linux@tux.org]On Behalf Of
>> Kevin Kitts
>> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 5:49 PM
>> To: ma-linux@tux.org
>> Subject: Streaming Audio/Linux/Web
>>
>> Hello All,
>>   I'm about to embark on a volunteer effort to create a web site would
need
>> streaming audio. The goal of the site is to present written and spoken
>> Chinese based on a Chinese language pre-school program. One of the
teachers
>> will record audio onto a PC for each of the words in the lesson for each
>> week and I'll set up a web site to allow the audio to be replayed when
the
>> student clicks on the Chinese character.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas on how to approach such a project I'd be grateful
to
>> hear them. I'm partial to Linux, of course; especially for the web site.
But
>> if there are good recording tools on the PC that is OK as that may be
more
>> convenient for the teachers that will prepare the audio recordings.
>>
>> I'm thinking about getting the free "RealProducer" from RealNetworks as
I've
>> heard good things about the sound quality. Any other strong candidates
that
>> I should consider?
>>
>> Since I'm doing this as a volunteer effort with a budget of, well, close
to
>> zero, open source and/or free tools are preferred.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>

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