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Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From SXSW.com

Posted by timothy on from the decent-exposure dept.

chupacabra writes "SXSW.com in Austin, Texas has a group of computers in various music venues around town. The ices/icecast stream is sent over 802.11 to a main server at SXSW. There are 6 venues running as of this moment. Thanks to the folks at Vorbis and their CVS we are rocking. See sxsw.com/music/livestreams."

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  1. What makes this exciting... by anubi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the Ogg Vorbis page, I quote:

    "What is Ogg Vorbis?

    Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source."

    To me, any time we start developing a technology which can be freely used by all without worry of the letter in the mail, its cause for celebration.

    They are testing it, and the better the tools we have in the box, the better we can do a job. And thats the end result isn't it? Getting from here to there with a minimum of effort.

    I use the efforts of others daily, and it is my hope that before I leave this planet, I can leave something for others.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]