[vorbis] Games...

[Pedriana, Paul]

   >>As a fellow "lead programmer at a" [not-so-major] 
   >>"game comapy" I understand your predicament. But 
   >>instead of waiting for some volunteer to do it 
   >>for free, why don't you convince EA to put someone 
   >>on the task? I realize that good optimizers are 
   >>expensive, but surely EA is looking at way more 
   >>than one programmer's salary in FhG licensing fees. 

I'm not waiting for any volunteers; I am planning on 
doing it myself. I just don't want to do it until I 
have some reason to believe that what I do will not have
to be redone again later after it changes. Why don't 
I "convince EA to put someone on the task"? I have convinced
EA (well, Maxis) and that person is me right now, though 
we have others that could do it too. I am simply more
motivated than they are at this point. In actuality, Maxis 
sound programming is totally separate from EA Sports sound 
programming which is separate from Westwood sound 
programming. So each division will have to write their 
own wrapper (if they want to use Vorbis) and that is not 
a big deal, really. 

As for EA paying FhG licensing fees, AFAIK, we don't do 
that. I personally would rather use no MP3s than pay 
licensing fees for it, and in fact that's what we've 
done. I think other studios within EA have taken a 
similar approach.

Paul

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.