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Re:Ogg objections by please on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:28PM (#1164724)
does matroska work for streaming?
Re:Ogg objections by DarkShikari on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:30PM (#1164732)
Yes. Matroska's index is optional, and thus one should be able to stream it simply by omitting the index.

I suspect many existing implementations are suboptimal for streaming though simply because almost nobody uses it that way and so they have not been as tested as they otherwise would be. But this is easy to solve since the format itself already supports streaming.

Re:Ogg objections by please on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:32PM (#1164739)
is there a server and client that supports it? from http://www.matroska.org/technical/guides/faq/index.html Will Matroska be streamable? Yes, but low bitrate streaming like streaming Vorbis, will always be better in Ogg. This is because their design is for different purposes.
Re:Ogg objections by DarkShikari on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:34PM (#1164743)
They're referring to (at the time it was written) streaming Vorbis using Ogg, which is not at all an unreasonable thing to do. Ogg was originally designed to contain Vorbis, and thus Vorbis-in-Ogg is not particularly evil or difficult to deal with. Ogg only became seriously problematic when they tried to extend it to include things that it wasn't originally designed to be able to do.
Re:Ogg objections by aw3c2 on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @01:34PM (#1164745)
Ogg works better.