Tim Hanson tbhanson@gmx.de wrote...
I'd be interested in trying to make MP3s or some other convenient format I could share with friends via the web.
Craig Latta Craig.Latta@netjam.org replied...
I recommend Ogg Vorbis (vorbis.com), a "completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." I think it sounds great, and far preferable to MP3 technically for several reasons (space, quality, scaling). Software for it abounds.
I second the motion.
As soon as I understood all the legal issues surrounding MP3, I wanted to do an open alternative (hey, can't be *that* hard, right? ;-). Ogg Vorbis (see, eg, http://www.vorbislinks.com/) seems to be exactly this kind of movement and I am strongly in support of it. Squeak could be a neat synergy for them, and it would be a valueable tool for Squeak.
- Dan
[I apologize for the possibly redundant distribution to squeak-dev, but I think several people who aren't on SqueakAudio might want to know/think about this].
Dan Ingalls wrote:
Tim Hanson tbhanson@gmx.de wrote...
I'd be interested in trying to make MP3s or some other convenient format I could share with friends via the web.
Craig Latta Craig.Latta@netjam.org replied...
I recommend Ogg Vorbis (vorbis.com), a "completely open, patent-free,
professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." I think it sounds great, and far preferable to MP3 technically for several reasons (space, quality, scaling). Software for it abounds.
I second the motion.
As soon as I understood all the legal issues surrounding MP3, I wanted to do an open alternative >(hey, can't be *that* hard, right? ;-). Ogg Vorbis (see, eg, http://www.vorbislinks.com/) seems to > be exactly this kind of movement and I am strongly in support of it. Squeak could be a neat synergy for them, and it would be a valueable tool for Squeak.
(Belatedly, thirded). Now, if someone could work out a way of combining compression, the jmv movie format and Ogg Vorbis, we'd _really_ have something.
Cheers
John
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 02:42:32 +0000, John Hinsley wrote:
(Belatedly, thirded). Now, if someone could work out a way of combining compression, the jmv movie format and Ogg Vorbis, we'd _really_ have something.
Cheers
John
Interestingly, when I first came across Ogg's website, maybe 4 years ago, they were working on a general purpose compression format where I guess the decompression utility was simply a general purpose decompression "vm". The idea being that each compressed data item would contain the necessary code for the vm to unpack it, potentially allowing you to encode any combination of data in any which way you like - and know that the end user would be able to handle it.
But when I looked recently there didn't seem to be any mention of this project. I'm sure something along these lines could be done very nicely in squeak, though.
Regards,
Nick
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