NAME

       pob-fec - receive FEC MP3 streams

SYNOPSIS

       pob-fec [ -s address ] [ -p port ] [ -b size ] [ -q ]

DESCRIPTION

       pob-fec  receives  a  FEC  MP3 stream using a custom protocol. The streamed MP3 frames are
       first decomposed in autonomous data units (ADUs). These ADUs are grouped into ADU  groups,
       which are encoded redundantly using a FEC method by Luigi Rizzo. For example, a group if 8
       ADUs can be encoded into 16 packets. Any  8  received  packets  of  these  16  packets  is
       sufficient  to  recover  the original 8 ADUs. The incoming MP3 stream is decoded, buffered
       and written to stdout.

OPTIONS

       -s address
              Specify the address to  listen  to  (default  224.0.1.23).  If  the  address  is  a
              multicast address, group membership is requested automatically.

       -p port
              Specify the port to listen to.

       -b size
              Specify the number of ADU groups that are hold in the buffer (default 16).

       -q     Don't output any information on standard error.

EXAMPLES

       pob-fec -s 224.0.1.24 -p 8989 | mpg123 -
              Receive the MP3 FEC stream sent to 224.0.1.24 on port 8989 and feed it into the MP3
              decoder mpg123.

AUTHORS

       Manuel Odendahl <manuel@bl0rg.net>, Florian Wesch <dividuum@bl0rg.net>

                                          February 2005                                POB-FEC(1)