For those who are interested, it's a weekly radio show produced by the Church of the SubGenius, presenting the bewildering doctrine of PatrioPsychoticAnarchoMaterialism, buried beneath a dizzying media barrage. Hosted by Rev. Ivan Stang, official show archives maintained by yours truly. Now offering 45k and 160k Ogg Vorbis files, listen in headphones: http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html Actually, we've been including vorbis files (at various rates) for about a year now. A few months ago, when storage capacity was really tight (a period which lasted about 5 or 6 months), I settled on 64k vorbis for our only hi-fi version of the show. I had very few complaints, most were from people with portable mp3 players and Mac users disappointed they couldn't play these files in iTunes. Can anyone tell me: How do you make vorbis files streamable from a regular web server? Is there some way to create a meta-file that when linked will launch the user's player and *stream* the file (as with MP3) instead of requiring them to download the entire file before playing? I've tried doing this with *.m3u & *.pls files with no success. Do I really have to use an icecast server to do this or is there some other way? db --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:42:19AM -0500, David Bachner wrote:> Can anyone tell me: > How do you make vorbis files streamable from a regular web server? Is there > some way to create a meta-file that when linked will launch the user's > player and *stream* the file (as with MP3) instead of requiring them to > download the entire file before playing? I've tried doing this with *.m3u & > *.pls files with no success. Do I really have to use an icecast server to do > this or is there some other way?Both m3u and pls files work in xmms, and I believe in winamp as well. This is the general solution to this problem. Ogg Vorbis streaming *is* http streaming, so the only technical problem is getting the browser to hand off the link target rather than the downloaded filename to the helper application. I guess I'd check that: your music player can play local .ogg files, and that your web server is using the application/ogg mimetype for the ogg files. I suppose it's possible the player is dispatching the format based on the mimetype (which would be a step up from the old method of using the filename extension) and the server is giving a generic mimetype or the older application/x-ogg and the player only works for application/ogg or application/x-ogg. Of course you need icecast for live or continuous streaming, but it's not necessary at all for streaming archived programmes. HTH, -r --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.