[icecast-dev] Hot Topic: Icecast in Macromedia Flash

Macsym
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:57:35 -0000

Hi Jack,

By "democratizing" Icecast, I meant that it would create a single
player for
all users of Win32, Linux and MAC. Also, I have heard the PPC community is
now convincing Macromedia to develop a version of their Linux Flash Plugin
especially for PPC. You are true about the .ogg files, Flash can't play it
for the moment which is bad because it .ogg is definitely a better format
than MP3. Anyway, I think developing a Flash mp3 player for Icecast is still
a nice idea.

MAX

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-icecast-dev@xiph.org [mailto:owner-icecast-dev@xiph.org] On
Behalf Of Jack Moffitt
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 1:17 AM
To: icecast-dev@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] Hot Topic: Icecast in Macromedia Flash

> I am trying to build an mp3 player in Macromedia Flash that would work
with
> Icecast. Using Flash as a mp3 player instead of Winamp, XMMS,. could
> democratize Icecast because Flash is cross-platform/cross-browser, it is
> installed on almost every computer connected to the internet and it will
be
> embedded into a webpage.

Unfortunately flash doesn't work on many of the xiph developers
platform of choice (ppc linux), nor does it support Ogg.  So while
interesting, it's not nearly as democratizing as one would at first
think.

jack.