[vorbis] Re: intro to compressed audio tutorial

Graham Mitchell mitchell at cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu
Thu Feb 7 09:07:04 PST 2002



> At the end of the lossless passage, "Which this is ideal for some users,
> the average user needs more." should probably say "While ...".

Got it.

> Where you choose to stick with vorbis, the openness of vorbis is
> understated, I think.  "is the only format among all the new ones that is
> not heavily patented" might mean that it's only lightly patented ;) -
> you should say that it's completely patent-free (while other are
> heavily patented) and you never say that all the code is open-source.

I'll do this.  I had left it out because I was assuming the target audience
wouldn't care about open-source and it was already getting pretty long.  But
it's something they *should* care about, so I'll mention it.

I'll roll in these and the CBR/ABR/VBR changes tonight when I get home.

I hadn't thought about tagging, because I don't use them, but they should be
mentioned as well.

The main purpose of this document was NOT intented to be Vorbis advocacy,
though that element is obviously in there.   Mostly it was intended to
explain *what* lossy compression codecs are all about, with an introduction
to terminology, features, etc.  But since this will (hopefully) eventually be
hosted at vorbis.com, a section on "Why Vorbis" wouldn't be out of place.


--
Graham Mitchell
computer science teacher
Leander High School

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