Hi, I am looking for a way to stream live audio using the FLAC audio format. After some analysis myself I found various lossy alternatives, also in higher levels of kbps (like MP3 320 kbps). But I do want to challenge and be sure whether FLAC might be a possibility. So I am specifically looking for an encoder and server solution supporting live streaming FLAC audio. Do you have a good practice? Thanks, Maarten Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20141124/4f3a6e8c/attachment.htm
Op 24-11-14 om 13:43 schreef Maarten S:> So I am specifically looking for an encoder and server > solution supporting live streaming FLAC audio.Hi, There hasn't been much live streaming of FLAC as far as I know, so there are probably no best practices and there isn't much software available. A few resources of interest to you might be these http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11489300/why-is-flac-streaming-over-http-done-with-ogg-encapsulation-instead-of-natively http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edcast http://archiv.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2008/using-flac-encoding/ I hope this helps. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20141124/edb3880c/attachment.htm
MPD can do it[1], if you're looking for implementation details, they're in the code[2]. 1. https://takla.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/mpd-stream-lossless-flac-or-wav/ 2. git.musicpd.org On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Maarten S <maartensvo at live.nl> wrote:> Hi, I am looking for a way to stream live audio using the FLAC audio > format. > > After some analysis myself I found various lossy alternatives, also in > higher levels of kbps (like MP3 320 kbps). But I do want to challenge and > be sure whether FLAC might be a possibility. > > So I am specifically looking for an encoder and server solution > supporting live streaming FLAC audio. > > Do you have a good practice? > > Thanks, > > Maarten > Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > >-- avuton -- Fortes fortuna adiuvat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20141124/941f28b6/attachment.htm
The FLAC format was certainly designed with the intention to support streaming. I'm just not aware of anyone doing it. It looks like other list members have provided some promising links. Brian Willoughby On Nov 24, 2014, at 4:43 AM, Maarten S <maartensvo at live.nl> wrote:> Hi, I am looking for a way to stream live audio using the FLAC audio format. > > After some analysis myself I found various lossy alternatives, also in higher levels of kbps (like MP3 320 kbps). But I do want to challenge and be sure whether FLAC might be a possibility. > > So I am specifically looking for an encoder and server solution supporting live streaming FLAC audio. > > Do you have a good practice? >