[vorbis] Ogg Traffic for Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Wed Dec 12 22:44:14 PST 2001

Sorry these haven't been regularly scheduled :)

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<p><p>Ogg Traffic for Wednesday, December 12, 2001

   Jack Moffitt

   <[1]jack at xiph.org>
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   Table of Contents

   1. [2]Support The Ogg Project
   2. [3]Status Updates

        2.1. [4]Monty
        2.2. [5]Stan Seibert
        2.3. [6]Jack Moffitt
        2.4. [7]Michael Smith

   3. [8]New Developments

        3.1. [9]Metadata Flamefest
        3.2. [10]Update for Sonic Foundry's Siren

   4. [11]Interesting Happenings

        4.1. [12]Ogg In Games
        4.2. [13]Downslam Supports Ogg

1. Support The Ogg Project

   The Xiph.org Foundation is the not-for-profit company that funds and
   manages the Ogg, Icecast, and other related projects. We are now
   accepting donations via [14]PayPal. Please consider contributing to
   our efforts by sending a donation to <[15]donate at xiph.org> via PayPal.

2. Status Updates

   The Ogg team finishing up RC3. Here is a quick update from some of the
   most active developers in the last few weeks.

2.1. Monty

   Monty has been hacking virtually non-stop, and has finally merged his
   work onto mainline in preparation for the RC3 release. CVS is still
   limited to 128kbps, but over the next few days, the rest of the modes
   should make an appearance.

2.2. Stan Seibert

   Stan has been hard at work finishing his massive changes to ogg123.
   The buffering and streaming code is quite reworked and everyone is
   encouraged to test this work (on the volsung_kc_20011011 branch of
   vorbis-tools). He hopes to merge soon so that this new code ships with
   the RC3 release.

2.3. Jack Moffitt

   Jack has been improving the alsa09 plugin for libao and preparing for
   an alpha release of Icecast 2. He has also been having fun playing Ogg
   CDs on his Dreamcast.

2.4. Michael Smith

   Michael is currently touring America, visiting (among other friends)
   some of the other developers at Xiph.

3. New Developments

   Lots of code getting written. Release preparations are under way for
   the long-awaited RC3.

3.1. Metadata Flamefest

   Jonathan Walther [16]rekinkled the metadata flames with his revised
   proposal. It makes for some entertaining reading. A revised proposal
   was [17]also offered, and Segher tried [18]classifying metadata so
   that everyone could better understand the problems.

3.2. Update for Sonic Foundry's Siren

   An update from Siren was (unofficially) [19]made available to bring
   Ogg support up to the RC2 level.

4. Interesting Happenings

   A lot of mail comes in to the various lists as well as to the team's
   personal mailboxes. The following is a highlight of the interesting
   things that have been mentioned or announced.

4.1. Ogg In Games

   Brian Hook (of id software fame) and his new company [20]just released
   their first game, [21]Candy Cruncher, which uses Ogg for sound.

   Also, Papyrus Racing Games are using Ogg in their current racing
   title, NASCAR Racing 2002. They had this to say about their decision
   and experience:

<p>   "We're using a lot of spoken audio in this title (a first for us) and
   your codec has allowed us to reduce more than 350MB of audio data to
   about 40MB, a huge savings of memory and disk space! We are very
   impressed."

   --Tom Faiano, Producer

<p>   "Incorprating Ogg Vorbis into our codebase was quite painless, and in
   the end, even refreshing. No fuss no muss. Thank you for your
   efforts!"

   --Bill Farquhar, Soundguy du jour

4.2. Downslam Supports Ogg

   Downslam, an open-source music label has [22]added support for our
   favorite format.

References

   1. mailto:jack at xiph.org
  14. http://www.paypal.com/
  15. mailto:donate at xiph.org
  16. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0005.html
  17. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0139.html
  18. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0083.html
  19. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0200.html
  20. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0022.html
  21. http://www.pyrogon.com/games/candycruncher
  22. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200111/0166.html

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