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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Charles Henrich :
> RA is fine for low low bandwidth, but Xing! is much much MUCH (and standards
> based) better than RA for high quality streams.
> 

Well, neither is really a standard. For instance, I don't have the
protocol specs for Xing Stream's works and the low end mpeg streams
are not standards compliant at least that was the case 8 months ago
or so with  Xing Stream Works. If you noticed Real Audio's quality
is getting better and it has native binary so support FreeBSD 8)

The high end encoder/decoder for Real Audio is supposed to be Dolby 
AC3 perhaps one of the Progressive guys can step in an clarify.
It may be relevant because if we are comparing low bandwith codecs with
100kb mpeg streams is not fair.


	Cheers,
	Amancio