Hello all, I would like to know what kind of AAC can stream icecast 2.2.0. Is it MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC? How much efficiency can be gained by using this kind of AAC compared to MP3? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20041227/c7c14910/attachment.html
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:51, Mindaugas Musnikas wrote:> > Hello all, > > I would like to know what kind of AAC can stream icecast 2.2.0. Is it > MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC? How much efficiency can be gained by using > this kind of AAC compared to MP3? > > ______________________________________________________________________The AAC format is passed through as-is, so you'll find that all variants of AAC go through. As for efficiency, it's understood to be better compression than mp3, whether it suits your needs is another matter. karl.
> > Hello all, > > I would like to know what kind of AAC can stream icecast 2.2.0. Is it > MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-4 AAC? How much efficiency can be gained by using this > kind of AAC compared to > MP3?_______________________________________________you might want to direct your efficiency questions to http://www.audiocoding.com. We are not really AAC experts here. As far as icecast goes, it should stream whatever type of AAC you throw at it. Oddcast uses MPEG2 AAC (via libfaac), I'm not sure what the other source clients that work with Icecast use. There is no real limitation of the formats you can stream with icecast now. Most of the MPEG-type formats are supportable now, you just need to get a source client and listening client that supports it. Any new formats encapsulated with ogg need a bit of work (i.e. speex) but, nothing too difficult. oddsock