[vorbis-dev] Vorbis On Macintosh

Thomas Marshall Eubanks tme at 21rst-century.com
Sun Jul 30 20:47:06 PDT 2000



Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Dan Weinand wrote:
>
> > I doubt that  their has been any development work on bringing vorbis to
> > the Mac. I am trying to do just that.
> >
> >     I want to know whether  you think I should try to port it using the
> > various components tht are being used to bring vorbis to Be and others
> > OR if i should wait till September when the public beta of Mac Os X (
> > which is based on Unix). I have been told that unix stuff will be fairly
> > easy to port to X, especially BSD stuff. i was hoping the public beta
> > would be out by now so I could star development right away.
> >
> > Any ideas, comments, concearns, insults?
>
> Porting to OSX should be trivial. It's not worth worrying about.
>
> Even once OSx is out there will still be a ton of MacOS users with systems
> fast enough for vorbis (anything 68060 or ppc should eventually work great
> for playback) but not running OSX.
>
> It would be very valuable to have a macos port of vorbis today.
>
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It would also be useful to have a Macintosh port
of Free Amp !

                              Marshall Eubanks

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