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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 :
> > 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 Xi
ng
> 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 rollin
g
> their own crap, the world would be a better palce..


Well, I doubt that Real audio needs to license the mpeg encoders or 
decoders. 

It will be interesting to compare mpeg 28.8kb mpeg stream against real audio's latest codec for 28.8...

	Amancio