[4607] in java-interest
Java & Realtime audio?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel R. Kegel)
Tue Jan 9 05:13:09 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:19:53 -0800
From: dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Cc: dank@alumni.caltech.edu
I'm looking for ways to deliver semi-realtime audio via the
Web. Realaudio would be fine but for its steep pricetag
of $150/stream. I was excited to find the source for a very interesting
realtime audio player in http://java.sun.com/people/avh/audiotricks.html,
but I read in comp.lang.java various complaints about sound support
in Netscape Java being horribly broken, even for .au format data.
Sounds like audio isn't a priority for whoever's doing the Java
runtime.
Also, uncompressed audio would kill me- I need a way to get
strong compression. Realaudio supports this; java's standard library
doesn't touch it.
Is there hope for semirealtime audio in Java? Or are we all doomed to have
to purchase RealAudio servers to give our users reasonable
realtime audio?
Sincerely,
Dan Kegel
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