[vorbis-dev] test suite

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Holger Waechtler wrote:

> could you please set up a area at xiph.org, where you mirror some of
> the test sequences, just to be shure that everybody talks about the
> same sequence ?

Unfortunately, I don't have permissions on the website. Emily? Jack?
Monty? Can we get disk for this?

> The license issues are not too important, I think if we should be
> allowed to use 'free for non-commercial use' sequences for our tests.
> Perhaps it's a good idea to seperate things in 'free', 'free for test
> purposes' and 'probably not free in most countries, but interesting.
> Download this only if you are allowed to do so'. 
> The videos should have a length of 5-30 seconds.
> 
> For new tests I'd like a BSD-alike license.

Certainly; I'd come to a similar conclusion.

> A major problem could be the file format. As far I have seen, everybody
> uses it's own file format for now. Perhaps it's a good idea to convert
> everything to .ppm's.

Converting everything to a standard, open format is a good idea, as well
as providing the originals. I was thinking mng, of course. :) But a series
of png, ppm, or jpeg images would work too.

 -r

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