New, much improved Ogg Vorbis codec

[westlife]

XM, HD Radio, and DRM may have all settled on AAC in one form or another, but other codecs are quickly catching up to be serious contenders in the field of low-bitrate (96 kbps or less) lossy digital compression.

One of these is the open-source, non-proprietary codec known as Ogg Vorbis (.OGG). There is a brand new version of it, called "aoTuV b4.5", which is custom-tuned for use at low bitrates, and in my tests it's a major improvement over any previous version of the Ogg codec. You can download the encoder from http://71.250.54.21:8000/stream.ogg

First, though, it might be wise to look at this status page in your web browser:

<a target="_blank" href=http://71.250.54.21:8000/>http://71.250.54.21:8000/</a>

If it shows more than 3 or 4 current listeners, then please wait until it frees up a bit, because the streaming server software takes up a lot of my computer's CPU power (it's only an 833 MHz PIII) and I don't want it to bog down and crash. (My DSL connection could support up to about 15 concurrent listeners at 48 kbps, but I doubt my computer will!)
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"This is the New York Emergency Broadcast System satellite channel. They took the crosstown bus."</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by westlife on 11/15/05 04:10 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[westlife]

> UPDATE: The stream is currently offline... WinAmp crashed.
> Maybe the new codec is still a bit buggy. I'll have to mess
> around with it when I get home tonight.
>
> FooBar2000 as the audio source. Right away I can tell the CPU load is much lower than WinAmp, and hopefully it won't crash all the time like WinAmp did.

The only glitch is that it isn't properly passing the artist/title track info to the streaming server, so when you play the stream these fields come up as blank. But that's a minor issue which hopefully I'll be able to iron out.
Nonetheless, tune in and enjoy what may be the first Internet audio stream using the hot new "aoTuV b4.5" version of the open-source Ogg Vorbis codec!
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"This is the New York Emergency Broadcast System satellite channel. They took the crosstown bus."</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by westlife on 11/17/05 11:41 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[mikl73]

> > UPDATE: The stream is currently offline... WinAmp crashed.
>
> > Maybe the new codec is still a bit buggy. I'll have to
> mess
> > around with it when I get home tonight.
> >
> > http://70.111.244.247:8000/stream.ogg
>
> Finally, the Ogg stream is up and running again, now using
> FooBar2000 as the audio source. Right away I can tell the
> CPU load is much lower than WinAmp, and hopefully it won't
> crash all the time like WinAmp did.
>
> The only glitch is that it isn't properly passing the
> artist/title track info to the streaming server, so when you
> play the stream these fields come up as blank. But that's a
> minor issue which hopefully I'll be able to iron out.
> Nonetheless, tune in and enjoy what may be the first
> Internet audio stream using the hot new "aoTuV b4.5" version
> of the open-source Ogg Vorbis codec!
>

i cant wait to play with the new codec.. i fully agree with you and run a stream in ogg at present.