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To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (3471)	6/5/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Kenneth M. Koff, CPCU	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5843

Wonder if the technospeak might be conducted as private e-mails, please...

To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (3471)	6/5/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 5843

Hello BAM, > Meanwhile, why not check out this technology and let us know what > you think? I'm downloading it now and will play ... thanks for the URL! From what I can read they are not going to support streaming from this client though ... they want you to get Microsoft's client ... > The information I presented pertains to bandwidth (sloppy > presentation on my part) and is from Nullsoft's own SHOUTcast > technical specs: {stuff deleted} > My understanding, however, is that Telos' Systems' Audioactive > solution (also NT-based) is more bandwidth efficient and less > resource constrained. (I'll get more detail from my geeks.) > Meanwhile, based on your SHOUTcast experience, we look forward to > your comments. This is where I'm confused. If I encode a music file at 24Kbps ... then it shouldn't matter who's product ... it's a 24Kbps encoding. I'm not sure how they can further reduce the compression of the stream without moving to an alternative encoding. Even if they could it seems that the additional compression would be marginal ... I'll be curious to hear what the "geeks" have to say ... > BAM Scott C. Lemon