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

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:10:14PM -0700, volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> 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.

Whilst we may say that, the suits won't like it until there is a 1.0
release.  So sure, there are no *technical* limitations to them
implementing the decoder in their products now, there are 'marketing'
reasons why they won't.


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