[vorbis] OGG lossless?

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

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From: "fungus" <meditvr at teleline.es>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] OGG lossless?

<p>> Graham Mitchell wrote:
> >>That makes a lot of sense to me...one program for everything.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > No!  No!  No!
> > 
> > Don't you see, that's the Microsoft philosophy!
> 
> Not really.
> 
> In this case the two jobs are *so* similar that it
> makes sense to put them together.
> 
> If I'd asked for (eg.) video compression to be added
> to vorbis than *that* would be Microsoft philosophy
> (eg. getting a word processor to edit HTML).

Lossy and lossless compression are two fundamentally
different problems with fundamentally different solutions.

You _are_ essentially asking for video compression to be
added :)


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GCP

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