[vorbis] FREE at last

[Ralph Giles]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:

> > Now a question about VORBIS
> > I wonder when the next release of VORBIS is sheduled for?
> > Are there gonna be some more options to choose from (like LAME)?
> > Joint stereo perhaps?
> 
> Yes, I would like to know that too.
> Monty, can you supply us with some answers?

Last I spoke with monty, the features on the todo list for vorbis 1.0
are generally:

Channel Coupling. Meaning joint stereo and hopefully also (joint) 
        ambisonic surround.

Cascading support. This is the promised 'bitrate peeling' feature for
        trivial transcoding to lower bitrates.

Lower-bitrate Modes. Combines with the above.

I don't know that there's any firm schedule for this, beyond the
aforementioned new year deadline from mp3 licensing. The above will
probably take at least a two months together though, so I don't expect 1.0
before December at the earliest. Unless they punt. :)

Makes sense to release another couple of betas in the meantime though. We
could actually do a beta3 real soon with just the bug fixes and code
re-org from the postbeta2 branch, but I'd wait until one of the above
features is added.

<plug>
It would also be nice if we could get stream-description metadata in there
as well, if only to make it a less traumatic upgrade when tarkin happens.
For my part, I'm just not sure Robert and I will have anything stable by
then. Some help with it would be greatly appreciated! :) We seem to
generally have consensus on the metadata elements, but not on how to
encode them, and I don't have a good handle on what we need to support in
the stream-description part.

If we do it the way I want to, we need mng and xml substream support at
least, to span the required feature set, as it were. See my todo list at
http://snow.ashlu.bc.ca/ogg/todo.html for details.
</plug>

Hope that helps,
 -ralph


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