Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:30:03 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199611231930.OAA18969@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611231927.LAA27852@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 23, 96 11:27:35 am"
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> 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.
I never said hte low bandwidth stuff was standard, although down to 32kbps Xing
is MPEG2 I believe. Its "more standard". And I dont care about being fair, Im
talking about relative quality at 112kbps, Mpeg audio (hence
streamworks/maplay) are *much* nicer than RealAudio. If RealAudio was smart
and licensed the mpeg audio codec (if thats even necessary) instead of rolling
their own crap, the world would be a better palce..
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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