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BBC Testing Ogg Vorbis Streaming

Posted by timothy on from the stream-baby-stream dept.

jregel writes: "Credit must go to AirLance who posted a comment on Slashdot that the BBC are currently testing Ogg Vorbis streaming. As the comment says, users should email the BBC and show support. It would certainly suggest that someone at the BBC is quietly pushing open source. Is this the first major media outlet to use the format?" I hope someone from NPR is reading this, too :)

2 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Re:nothing revolutional by Calamity+Jane · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You're a dick. The question was about ways to conserve bandwidth by not sending a seperate stream to each user. How you got to soap-boxing about renting music is anyone's guess.

    Anyway, back to the subject: for live feeds it's easy to multicast, because there's no time shifting. For on-demand streams (say of news updates or whatever) I can't see a way to mulitcast because everyone's listening to a different point in time. Perhaps a Akaimi type solution is the best idea with current tech.

  2. didnt get it to work by Tomji · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I used the plug in from the BBC site for winamp.

    tried for 10 mins... not working.

    looks like windows media will win