[xiph] Ogg Traffic / Release Announcements

Carsten Haese carsten
Thu Nov 20 08:27:54 PST 2003



Hi everybody:

Here is a new Ogg Traffic, with release announcements for Vorbis 1.0.1,
Speex 1.0.3, and Icecast 2 Beta 1. The HTML version is at
http://www.vorbis.com/ot/20031119.html.

Enjoy!

-Carsten

<p>Ogg Traffic for Wednesday, November 19, 2003

   Author:  Carsten "Purple" Haese
   Contact: [1]carsten at xiph.org
    Date:   November 19, 2003

   Table of Contents
     1   Status Updates
          1.1   Monty
          1.2   Jean-Marc Valin
          1.3   Stan Seibert
          1.4   Manuel Lora
          1.5   Warren Dukes
          1.6   Chris Cheney
          1.7   Ed Zaleski
          1.8   Brendan Cully
          1.9   Karl Heyes
          1.10   Ralph Giles
          1.11   Timothy Terriberry
          1.12   Arc Riley
     2   News and Recent Developments
          2.1   New Mailing List for Announcements
          2.2   Xiph.org at SCALE
          2.3   New Releases
               2.3.1   libao 0.8.4
               2.3.2   Vorbis 1.0.1
               2.3.3   Icecast 2.0 Beta 1
               2.3.4   Speex 1.0.3
          2.4   IceShare

   [2]Previous Issues of Ogg Traffic

1   Status Updates

1.1   Monty

   Besides committing a few minor bugfixes to libogg, Monty spent a lot
   of time on postfish. Postfish is a sound postprocessor with noise
   filter, and Monty has been spending a lot of time on developing a
   revolutionary declipping filter for it.

   Vorbis 1.1 is still on the agenda, too, but it's still in the thinking
   stages. Monty did say, however, that some of his postfish work will
   also be applicable to improve Vorbis, although he did not go into any
   details about the connection.

1.2   Jean-Marc Valin

   Jean-Marc wins the Committer of the Month title by a wide margin due
   to his untiring efforts to produce a fixed-point version of [3]Speex.
   Incremental partial implementations are available in the unstable
   1.1.1 and 1.1.2 releases from November 1 and November 11,
   respectively.

   He also released the latest bug fixes on the stable branch as Speex
   1.0.3.

1.3   Stan Seibert

   Stan fixed a few positron bugs, and he rolled out the libao 0.8.4
   release. Read more about libao below in the News section.

1.4   Manuel Lora

   Manuel made a few adjustments to the Positron documentation, and he
   helped out Ed with the Icecast documentation.

1.5   Warren Dukes

   Warren helped out Stan with libao by providing a number of corrections
   and improvements to the alsa09 plugin.

1.6   Chris Cheney

   Chris helped Stan with the libao 0.8.4 release, and he added some
   sanity to the ogg, vorbis, and vorbis-tools automake files.

1.7   Ed Zaleski

   Ed aka Oddsock committed icecast2 documentation and various icecast2
   bugfixes in preparation for the Icecast 2 Beta 1 release. He also
   helped beat the Win32 SDK for Vorbis 1.0.1 into shape.

1.8   Brendan Cully

   Brendan committed some fixes to icecast's and ices' autoconf feng
   shui.

1.9   Karl Heyes

   Karl fixed a number of icecast2 bugs and memory leaks.

1.10   Ralph Giles

   Ralph was once again all over the map, helping along the Vorbis 1.0.1
   release with numerous autotools and SDK improvements, and checking in
   various improvements to Theora. Among other cleanups, he changed
   Theora's coordinate system back to VP3's to facilitate lossless
   transcoding from VP3 to Theora. This breaks compatibility with alpha
   2, but it was inevitable. Since he was already breaking compatibility,
   he added some more header fields for future encoder improvements.

1.11   Timothy Terriberry

   Timothy committed a couple of bug fixes to Theora's dump_video decoder
   example.

1.12   Arc Riley

   Arc has done some more work on libwrit (see
   [4]http://wiki.xiph.org/OggWrit), and has begun implementing py-ogg2
   (python bindings to libogg2) and a python-based IceTracker, the server
   part of IceShare. More details about IceShare are below in the News
   section.

2   News and Recent Developments

2.1   New Mailing List for Announcements

   [5]announce at xiph.org is a low volume mailing list that allows Xiph
   fans to stay up-to-date on events in the world of the Fish without
   having to subscribe to every single project's mailing list. This list
   distributes general news and announcements by the Xiph team, as well
   as the text version of Ogg Traffic.

   To subscribe to this list, send an email with the word "subscribe" in
   the body (not in the subject line) to [6]announce-request at xiph.org.

2.2   Xiph.org at SCALE

   I am pleased to announce that Xiph.org will be present at the Second
   Annual [7]Southern California Linux Expo in LA on November 22, 2003.
   Jack, Ralph, Nathan, Manuel, and I will take turns manning our booth,
   and Monty will give a presentation entitled "The State of Open Source
   and Multimedia: Technical Asphalt, Political Potholes and Tabloid
   Gossip."

   If you're in the area, this is a good opportunity to meet us face to
   face, to ask questions, or to show support for our cause.

2.3   New Releases

2.3.1   libao 0.8.4

   On October 5, 2003, Stan released the latest version of Xiph's
   cross-platform audio output library, [8]libao. This release contains
   improved pluging detection, new output plugins for AIX and NAS,
   portability fixes for many platforms, and many other fixes.

2.3.2   Vorbis 1.0.1

   It took a little longer than expected, but Vorbis 1.0.1 is finally
   out. Special thanks go to John Edwards, Case, and Oddsock for making
   sense of the Win32 issues, and to Warren Dukes for providing updated
   RPM specs.

   Detailed information about what's new in this release can be found in
   the [9]ChangeLog. Get the goods at
   [10]http://www.vorbis.com/download.psp.

2.3.3   Icecast 2.0 Beta 1

   The Icecast development team proudly announces the first official beta
   of Icecast 2, Xiph.org's new and improved streaming server for Ogg
   Vorbis and MP3. The alpha versions were already quite stable, so this
   beta should be relatively short lived, and it defines the feature set
   for Icecast 2.0.

   Planned features for future releases are listed on
   [11]http://wiki.xiph.org/Icecast2ReleasePlan. For more information and
   downloads, head on over to the [12]Icecast web pages.

2.3.4   Speex 1.0.3

   Jean-Marc concludes the list of new releases with a [13]Speex 1.0.3
   bugfix release. Among other minor bugfixes, this release corrects a
   multithreading bug and an underflow problem that could cause a
   dramatic decoding slowdown on x86 processors.

2.4   IceShare

   Iceshare is a pseudo-P2P system that's currently under development. It
   will be useable for streaming static Ogg files and continuous streams
   and support "on the fly" bitrate switching with multibitrate streams.

   Technical specs are available at [14]http://wiki.xiph.org/IceShare.

   The project would benefit from Python, Java, and C developers to help
   build a suite of Iceshare player toolsets at this point in
   development. Contact Arc Riley <[15]arc at xiph.org> for more details.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Ogg Traffic for November 19, 2003

References

   1. mailto:carsten at xiph.org
   2. http://www.vorbis.com/ot/
   3. http://www.speex.org/
   4. http://wiki.xiph.org/OggWrit
   5. mailto:announce at xiph.org
   6. mailto:announce-request at xiph.org
   7. http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/
   8. http://www.xiph.org/ao/
   9. http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/Changelog
  10. http://www.vorbis.com/download.psp
  11. http://wiki.xiph.org/Icecast2ReleasePlan
  12. http://www.icecast.org/
  13. http://www.speex.org/
  14. http://wiki.xiph.org/IceShare
  15. mailto:arc at xiph.org

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