[vorbis] Alpha

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:34:02AM -0700, Monty wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:33:47PM +1000, Michael Smith wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >If you have something that is Vorbize but better, go ahead and get rid of
> > > >Vorbize. I don't want to compete with anybody. But why not work on the
> > > >"official" 'ogg' encoder?
> > > 
> > > Because there isn't really an 'official' ogg encoder? If at some point
> > > Monty decides to bless one of the existing encoders as official (originally
> > > typoed as oggicial ;) so be it. 
> > 
> > Then what is vorbis/cmdline?
> 
> At the moment it's vaporware because me plate is very very full of other 
> things that need to get done first.
> 
> If anyone else wants to make an 'official' command line tool, more power to 
> you.  I am however going to insist on portability out of the starting gate.

Combine OggEnc and Ogg123? That would work nicely IMHO.

> I have to admit I use Vorbize and actually rather like it (simple, gets the 
> job done), but it can't be an official encoder until it's more portable.  
> Ditto of OggEnc although Mike seems to think it's closer (I haven't looked at 
> the code yet).
> 
> So until then, the 'submitted tool deathmatch' continues ;-)  

OggEnc is indeed much closer; I think what he has is indeed clean platform
clean. But now it's going to be front-ends ;)

Kenneth

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