[advocacy] Interview with Jack Moffitt

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Talking about forwards compatibility ... The RC3 encoder was originally
> supposed to produce peelable .ogg files. AFAIR, it does just that, but
> the way how Vorbis streams are going to be peeled in the future has
> changed. There seem to be much better ways than the initial method, so
> RC3's "peelability" is more or less worthless. If I understood Monty
> correctly, RC4 will produce "correctly" peelable .ogg files, and the
> tools for actually doing it will come post-1.0. (Just throwing this in
> since peeling still is among the most anticipated Ogg features :).
> Corrections heartly welcome.)

RC3 encoded files are perfectly well peelable, but if you peel by 50% or
more (roughly) it won't sound very good.  I'm writing a tool that will
switch a stereo stream to mono;  that will help more, I hope :)

Segher

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