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Topic: An Ogg Vorbis decoder for PeerCast? (Read 1918 times) previous topic - next topic
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An Ogg Vorbis decoder for PeerCast?

www.peercast.org
PeerCast is a P2P streaming program, similar to multicast but in that anyone can use & connect to it.  It has real great potential for broadcasters who don't have the money to pay for bandwidth, or don't have enough of an upstream to use a Shoutcast/Icecast/etc server.

It supports streaming Ogg Vorbis, but unfortunately, it requires you to already have an Ogg-streaming player installed.  Would anyone be willing to integrate the Vorbis decoding libraries into PeerCast's client, so that WMP/Real/iTunes users (i.e. the majority of computer users) don't have to have the additional burden of downloading an unfamiliar player just to use Vorbis's great streaming capabilities?

It would certainly secure Vorbis a place in the broadcasting scene.

Not to mention it would secure a place in Internet broadcasting for small businesses who can't afford to pay oodles for bandwidth, plus licensing fees, plus ASCAP/BMI royalties, plus RIAA royalties.  =(