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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD!
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:30:03 -0500 (EST)
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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