Re: question about use MP3s with LAME on Icecast

Roger Hågensen <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:06:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.icecast.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2015-04-26 14:10, "Thomas B. Rücker" wrote:

> Just use Opus. It's free as in speech and beer. No licensing fees, no
> legal doubts, just use it.
> Opus is conveniently supported by major browsers...
Yeah, agreed. I'm a strong advocate of Opus as well.


But to get back to the topic regarding MP3 and LAME and streaming.
MY advice is just don't do it. The quality just isn't there compared to 
other codecs, especially at low bitrates.

And the MP3 licensing/patent mess is a real headache as you may need a 
encoder license and streaming license.


-- 
Roger Hågensen, Freelancer, http://skuldwyrm.no/