[OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Broadcasting Suggestions Request

[Robin Axelsson]

On 2013-04-12 17:18, Peter Tribble wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to finally be making progress with the last major hurdle before
>> bringing our OI servers online, and now the Archbishop has decided he wants
>> me to take a break from this and lend a hand in another project.
>>
>> He wants to start broadcasting live audio streams of our services for our
>> parishioners who are scattered all over the world.  He doesn't want video
>> (at this time) because he doesn't want to turn the church into a television
>> studio.  (And the others would certainly do that!)
>  ...
>
>> 4) Any server level type of software needs to be able to run on
>> OpenIndiana.
>>
> I've seen any number of audio streaming demos using Node.JS. Which
> is going to work just fine on OpenIndiana.
>
> However, if this were me I would just outsource this. It's a perfect example
> of a commodity that is unlikely to be your core competency. Something
> like http://wavestreaming.com/ for example, I'm sure there are others.
>

What I really miss is the capability to stream flac, Monkey's Audio,
Wavpack or Apple lossless online without transcoding to a lossy format
such as ogg or mp3, but I guess that is a different discussion ...