[Advocate Play Ogg] Streaming Theora (was: Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.)

[Andreas K. Foerster]

Am Thursday, dem 31. May 2007 schrieb Michael Fötsch:

> Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> > On linux.com they currently have a daily series of Eben Moglen 
> > speeches in streaming Ogg Theora. So you can judge yourself. It 
> > works fine on my computer. 
> > http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1616214 
> > http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1640207 
> > http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1641219
> 
> Thanks a lot. This answers my question whether anyone is using 
> streaming Ogg Theora already. (Or did VLC download the entire file and 
> play it locally? It would make a difference for a 100 MB file where 
> you notice after 10 seconds of watching that it's not interesting...)

No, that is really streaming.

If you search someone who offers Ogg Vorbis and Theora for download: 
The FSF does of course. :-)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html

More sites listed on: 
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/List_of_Theora_videos

> Anyway, does anyone know where I can find information about setting up 
> a streaming Theora server, then? I seem to have problems finding a
> place to start (Icecast doesn't seem to be the right place...).

Don't really know.
But maybe <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html> is for you?

> Someone posted a link to a "StreamingVorbis" page earlier. 
> Does the same exist for Theora?

It was me. But that was not a manual but a list of existing streams.
I don't know about such a list for Theora.
For a list of downloadable Videos: see above.

-- 
AKFoerster