[TriLUG] Help testing Ogg streaming to a Mac

[Joseph Tate]

I'd help, but I don't have access to my mac.  I seem to remember ogg
streaming not working with the quicktime plugin.  I had to copy the
oggs locally.

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:34:32 -0500, Joel Ebel <jbebel at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Is there someone out there with a Mac that could help me test something?
>   I'm setting up some Ogg streams, and I need to make a recommendation
> for a Mac player.  Aaron Joyner tried out several players for me and
> found none of them to work.  I tried some of the same programs with a
> Mac on campus and found them to work acceptably.  So now I need a few
> more test points to see if Aaron's problem might have been his location.
>   I need to make a solid recommendation.
> 
> Here are the players I've tried:
> Audion:         http://www.panic.com/audion/
> MacAmp Lite:    http://www.bigblueamoeba.com/~pxr/pub/
> Whamb:          http://www.whamb.com/
> 
> I also tried:
> Ogg Quicktime Components:       http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/
> This would be great if it worked, but it only seems to work with local
> files not streams.  Don't know if anyone else knows it it might be
> possible.  This would be ideal.
> 
> VLC:            http://www.videolan.org/
> This looked like a nice program, but the audio quality had clicks and
> pops rather frequently, which is unacceptable.
> 
> The stream I have set up is at:
> http://wknc.org:8002/wknchq.ogg.m3u
> 
> Right now it's just a CD of mostly John Williams playing over and over.
> 
> So if someone out there with a Mac wouldn't mind testing these programs
> for me under OS X I'd very much appreciate.  I'd like to have a good
> recommendation for Ogg on Mac when I make the stream public.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel Ebel
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