[vorbis] new MS codecs

[Segher Boessenkool]

Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Steven Bailey wrote:
> > > I'll agree with you that MP3's do not sound good at 128.  They've got
> > > swishy artifacts that are apparent on almost any song with percussive
> > > instruments.  But WMA's...  Maybe they've made an improvement in their
> > > latest release, but all the WMA's I've ever encoded at any bitrate sound
> > > like they've got tape-hiss in the background!  That background static is
> > I read some of the MS patents which (presumably) relate to WMA last night.
> 
> What are the patent numbers so we can all read them?

Oh, sorry. 6,058,362 and 6,115,689. The second one is really awful: they
are patenting a very-much-less-than state-of-the-art psycha model.

Dagdag,

Segher

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