[streaming] Re: [streaming]

[michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be]

Quoting Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl>:

> michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be wrote:
> > Thanks, meanwhile I had figured that out also. However xmms can play the
> > raw stream just fine. It would be nice if vlc could do that also.
> > Do you understand what the issue is?
>
> A raw stream doesn't include timestamps for streaming, which are
> necessary for correct timing. That you could play the stream with xmms
> is pure luck.
>
> gtz,
> Jean-Paul Saman.
>
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Thanks for explaining,

I don't know much about this, but doesn't the mp3 format tell you the bitrate?
Isn't that theoretically enough info
to do the correct timing (like if you read from a file)? The raw stream also
plays fine in madplay. So I am not sure it is pure luck.

Regards,
Michel



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