Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:52:47 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199611231952.LAA28049@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:30:03 EST." <199611231930.OAA18969@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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