[vorbis-dev] Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, Ogg FLAC

Josh Coalson j_coalson at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 30 10:21:38 PST 2003



I am open to doing an adapter layer around the current libOggFLAC
interface to implement a common one.

Josh

--- Drew Hess <dhess at bothan.net> wrote:
> 
> I was just asking Josh about this.  It sounds like the plan for now
> for
> FLAC, at least, is to keep the OggFLAC interface. But I agree, it
> would be
> nice to have a common interface for ogg formats.
> 
> 
> -dwh-
> 
> 
> On 30 Jan 2003, Csillag Kristóf wrote:
> 
> > Now that FLAC has officionally joined the Xiph family,
> > there are three different free audio codecs, which can be
> > stored/transported using the ogg container.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to create an API and/or a library that
> > would cover them all?
> > 
> > If my understanding of the situation is correct, if an application
> wants
> > to support vorbis, speex and flac, it has to use three different
> > interfaces. (That's what Stan Seibert is doing right now with
> ogg123.)
> > 
> > If a unifying library would exist, application developers should
> only
> > code one interface. This would make things a lot more simple.
> > 
> > This could also help to spread speex and flac more quickly, because
> if
> > vorbis-aware applications start to use the new, unified library,
> they
> > get very near to speex and flac support... 
> > 
> > What do you think, does this make sense?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Csillag Kristóf <fenwick at freemail.hu>
> > 
> > 
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