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rriverstone
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OK: I'm producing radio news reports for http://kunm.org now. Their archives are in a .rm format which WebTV can't use.
I'd really like to have these in my domain, but in a format WebTV can access, but not so much bandwidth I eat up my entire account.
I'm thinking I could keep them in .wav format, which I can access from the radio station, but zip them.
Of course, I'd have to provide some sort of unzipping tool, so people can hear them.
I'm not sure this is even correct. Nor do I know how much work I'm making for myself.
I CAN use the computers at KUNM to do this task.
I posted about this in Bert's alt.discuss group, but forgot, and never saw replies.
Besides, I can't access alt.discuss from KUNM.
WebTV can't hear the mp3 formats public radio uses.
Is it best to convert them to another form of RAM file? Zip wavs? some form of mp3 WebTV CAN hear, or WHAT?
I'm pretty overwhelmed by all this, but I don't want all my hard work disappearing into an inaccessible cyber archives....
HELP!!!
Rogi
http://rriverstone.com
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Hi Rogi,
Can your station stream G2 Real Audio? Like Net4tv does? That would be the best solution. But you would have to do that from the stations server as ZboX is not equipped for that. Zipping wav files would probably work, but then you are stuck with the limitations of the Webtv box as far as file size etc would be concerned. Remember even if you took a 1meg wav file and zipped it down to 250k it would still be a 1meg file after unzipping it and yes that would count against your bandwidth. Here is a format for mp3 files that Webtv can play:
mpeg layer 3, 32 kbits per second, 22,050 HZ, mono
If your station can produce mp3 files to that format that would work. If it is just voice audio you should get a good amount of compression for a relatively small file size.
Hope that helps,
Bert
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