[vorbis-dev] more vorbis press!

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

According to Jack Moffitt (sometime around Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:59:21PM -0800):
[...]
>           One new Vorbis area to watch is video compression, an area
> stimulated by Project Mayo's work
>           on a new version of DivX as much as RealNetworks' and Intel's
                                ^^^^^ -- should be "DivX ;-)"
                                         "DivX" chashed and burned.

You mean they're actually _doing_ something??? Or working on hacking yet
another MS MPEG-4 release?

> improvements to streaming video
>           [see 11.8.00 Preparing New DivX, Project Mayo Faces Commercial
> Challenges]. Vorbis
>           programmers are gradually working on an open-source video codec
> called Tarkin, Zisk said.

For the x-bajillion'th time, Where Is Tarkin? Unless I have missed a whole
bunch of email (or an entire mailing list), last I heard of it was "I'll
put it up soon".

>           The compression technology is intended to give the video
> industry an alternative to proprietary
>           video formats, which are often tied to expensive server
> software. 
> 
>           Vorbis programmers don't know when they will finish Tarkin, so
> it could enter the market too late
>           to become the next "MP3 of video." But if Montgomery and Moffitt
> get lucrative consulting jobs or
>           if Xiphophorus gets a new corporate sponsor, programmers could
> make rapid progress, Zisk said.

-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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