[vorbis] plan/date for new features

[Monty]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:09:38PM +0200, Kristoff Bonne wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> With all the press concerning the 'almost 1.0' release of vorbis; I see a
> lot of messages floating around as 'now 1.0, and -soon- it will include
> joint-stereo, Wavelets, low-bitrate, peeling, etc. etc.'

Joint stereo first (I'm ready to start committing code in the next
couple of days, documentation is already in CVS), then low bitrate,
then vbr/cbr tuning.  Hopefully an rc1 ofthese three will be out in
July.  Bitrate peeling tools will not appear until after a 1.0
release.

> I don't want to end up with a situation saying 'yes; it now can do
> stereo; but the next version will have joint-stereo and allow a current
> 128 Kbps stream to be put into a 80 Kpbs stream'; when that 'next version'
> is not due for more then a year.

July is the target, but no promises; we're taking the deadline
seriously, but the unforseen is always lurking in the background.

Monty

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