[vorbis] Vorbis 1.0 before the end of the year?

[Maik Merten]

James Ossi schrieb:
> Hi guys.

Hello James!

> IMO now it's definitely time for finalizing Vorbis and throwing it
> in the arena.
> Two reasons:
> - RC2 sounds wonderfully well, I'm really amazed how good it is..
>   and I personally think there's little room for further improvement in
>   sound quality..
> - portable music devices are starting to take off (see Waitec, Creative,
>   Apple and many other vendors).

We all know that Vorbis is great great great! Nevertheless there
are still some things do do before 1.0 (keep in mind I´m not
a developer, so I may be wrong ;-):

 - true bitrate managment: Monty is working this (does he?). This
   is a very important feature I think. Vorbis was announced to
   be both a CBR and a VBR codec. Don´t let us lie ;-)
 - tuning for low-bitrate modes. This is necessary for
   Internet-Radio. We all want to free those radio stations from
   MP3-slavery, don´t we? I am sure that radio stations are
   _very_ intersted in Vorbis, so don´t disappoint them!
   (although it´s hard to imagine that Vorbis could ever
   disappoint anyone...)
 - bitrate peeling! This is something unique and 1.0 should
   be able to do this. We need utitities for peeling and
   an encoder that produces output that can be efficiently
   peeled. RC2 doesn´t prepare files for peeling!

I am sure there are even more things to do before 1.0!

> Wouldn't be good for the users and for Vorbis itself to have these babies
> already shipped with Vorbis specs in their eproms?

Creative, Apple etc. may feel free to implement the RC2 decoder into
these babies.

> Vorbis already puts competition in shame.. so why wait more?

Because there are still some things to do.

> Just my 0.02$!

bye,

Maik Merten


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