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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 15:26:31 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611232018.MAA28320@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 23, 96 12:18:48 pm"
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> >From The Desk Of Charles Henrich :
>> same as MPEG audio).  AC3 doesnt (or didnt unless its very recent) have any
>> provisions for variable encoding/decoding rates.  I'd prefer DTS in this cas
>> much higher quality, 20bit audio, 1.544Mbps bandwidth.  But that lands us in
>> the area of local delivery for theatre systems such as laserdisc.
>
> Now that sounds worth while to provide in my home 8)

:)  DTS had released 20 or so 4channel music CD's and the first 4-8 DTS encoded
laserdiscs are about to be released.

> > Its called Xing Streamworks :)
>
> Wrong, is called FreeBSD Deamon's Strems because the Xing Stremworks
> server costs a ton of money. So look around for the rtpv2 toolkit and
> get going 8)

Ah, good point. :)  Its called netscape with a mail.cap file that has an entry
like so:

audio/x-mpeg; /usr/local/bin/maplay -; stream-buffer-size=1048576

It works quite well.  Look at http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich/quotes/

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich