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

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Mark Hetherington wrote:

> To me it seems that a 1.0 decoder could be released, making people happy to 
> include support for Ogg Vorbis decoding in their apps, and the encoder could 
> continue to be worked on. Having not really poked around the code a lot, I 
> have to ask if there are many changes going on in the decoder?

Reread my message.  There will be no functional changes in the decoder between
now and 1.0.  Interested manufacturers can write hardware decoders based upon
RC2 right now and it will work with ALL future (and most past) 1.0 encoded
files.


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Stan Seibert

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 04:33, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Maik Merten wrote:
> > > Creative, Apple etc. may feel free to implement the RC2 decoder into
> > > these babies.
> >
> > Correct.  A lot of people don't realize that the Vorbis format is
> > sufficiently flexible that you can make all sorts of improvements to the
> > encoder without changing the decoder.  Monty has stated that the RC2
> > decoder (in fact the RC1 decoder!) will play all future Vorbis 1.0 files. 
> > All of Monty's work right now is going on in encoder space, which doesn't
> > affect hardware players.
> >
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