[vorbis] Ogg Traffic for November 13, 2001

[Jack Moffitt]

Better late than never :)

jack.


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Ogg Traffic for Tuesday, November 13, 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]Stan Seibert
        2.2. [5]Chris Wolf

   3. [6]New Developments

        3.1. [7]Ogg On A Chip Project
        3.2. [8]Ogg Vorbis For Dreamcast
        3.3. [9]Tarkin Interface To Ogg

   4. [10]Interesting Happenings

        4.1. [11]Ashampoo Media Player+
        4.2. [12]XMPlay2

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 [13]PayPal. Please consider contributing to
   our efforts by sending a donation to <[14]donate at xiph.org> via PayPal.

2. Status Updates

   The Ogg team is still pushing towards RC3 among other goals. Here is a
   quick update from some of the most active developers in the last few
   weeks.

2.1. Stan Seibert

   Stan, with the help of other contributors, has been working with libao
   on OS X and working on the ALSA plugin.

2.2. Chris Wolf

   Chris Wolf has tagged his updated Win32 modules. The new modules can
   be checked out from the win32-tools and win32sdk modules with the tag
   vorbis1_0_public_release_candidate_2p1. All Win32 developers should be
   these updated modules.

3. New Developments

   Not a whole lot happened this week; everyone is just coding.

3.1. Ogg On A Chip Project

   Pattara Kiatisevi [15]announced the Ogg on a Chip project, which will
   implement Ogg in form of a "system-on-a-chip" using "hardware/software
   co-design techniques". More information on the project can be found at
   the [16]sourceforge project page.
   k

3.2. Ogg Vorbis For Dreamcast

   Thorsten Titze wrote in with the latest status of his Dreamcast Ogg
   Vorbis code. It has now been included into the Open Source KOS
   Operating System. This allows hobbyist Dreamcast programmer to easy
   write games and tools using Ogg Vorbis. KallistiOS can be found at its
   [17]sourceforge project page.

3.3. Tarkin Interface To Ogg

   Olivier has been [18]proposing how Tarkin should be packetized and
   interfaced to the Ogg layer. A first cut at this has also been
   committed to the w3d module in CVS.

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. Ashampoo Media Player+

   Tim Green wrote in to announce the release of Ashampoo Media Player+,
   his company's new audio and video player including CD burning
   features. The player should be on the [19]website.

4.2. XMPlay2

   Ian Luck announced the release of XMPlay2 which now has support for
   Ogg including streaming. More details are available at
   [20]www.un4seen.com.

References

   1. mailto:jack at xiph.org
  13. http://www.paypal.com/
  14. mailto:donate at xiph.org
  15. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0052.html
  16. http://oggonachip.sourceforge.net/
  17. http://www.sf.net/projects/cadcdev/
  18. http://www.vorbis.com/ot/blah
  19. http://www.ashampoo.com/
  20. http://www.un4seen.com/

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