Streaming WMA without M$ software

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Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Aug-29-2007 07:01:

Streaming WMA without M$ software

Curious... anyone know of an open-source way to stream WMA to Windows Media Player?

I've been using oddcast/icecast to stream MP3, Ogg, and AAC2, but would like to add WMA capabilities without bowing to the microsoft demons...

Any ideas?

Posted by BOOsTER on Aug-29-2007 10:30:

not really, I think Microsoft owns the format, therefore they license any projects which use that...

(it's actually answer to your question, IMHO)

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Aug-29-2007 10:42:

apparently FFMpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/) can now encode WMA I was hoping someone might know of a way to integrate this into a stream

darn microsoft!

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Aug-29-2007 13:36:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download...yer_Classic.htm

Edit:
Oops, I'm not sure about streaming though... but why would you want to stream wma anyway?

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Aug-30-2007 01:08:

No real good reason, just would like to be able to cover the format if possible, and curious if anyone has done so without slaving themselves out to Windows Media Server

Posted by antronx on Aug-31-2007 01:45:

I don't think its worth streaming in .wma at all. Windows Media Player plays regular .mp3 streams very well. Unless there is some kind .wma only player, .mp3 should work fine.

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Aug-31-2007 01:58:

I wouldn't bother. Just stream it in MP3 for the best compatibility (just about every OS past AS400 will be able to read an MP3 stream SOMEHOW)