Icecast - Aug 2004 - other encoders?

Just doing a bit of research here. I hope it is not too off topic.
1) Is anyone using any other type of audio encoding utility *other than*
LAME?
2) If so, how compatible have you found it to be with your streaming
utilities, i.e. ices, liveice-ng, darkice, etc?
3) What other platforms have you been able to run these utilities
successfully?
I am not planning on migrating, but doing due dilligence to convince
management that we need to stay on Linux. I am keeping an open mind and
would like to know how well other utilities work on various platforms.
Thanks.
KJ


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Kerry Cox wrote:
> Just doing a bit of research here. I hope it is not too off topic.
> 1) Is anyone using any other type of audio encoding utility *other than*
> LAME?
> 2) If so, how compatible have you found it to be with your streaming
> utilities, i.e. ices, liveice-ng, darkice, etc?
darkice currently uses Lame only for mp3 encoding, and libvorbis/libogg
for Ogg Vorbis encoding. so there is no other mp3 encoding library used
by darkice. (of course it could, it's quite easy to add new ones)