[vorbis] Ogg Traffic for 3/11/2003

[Carsten Haese]

Hi everybody:

Below is the plain text version of this week's Ogg Traffic. The HTML
version is due to be posted on vorbis.com sometime later tonight.

Enjoy,

Carsten.

<p>Ogg Traffic for Tuesday, March 11, 2003

[1]Carsten "Purple" Haese

   March 11, 2003
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   Table of Contents

   1. Status Updates

        1.1. Monty
        1.2. Michael Smith
        1.3. Brendan Cully
        1.4. Karl Heyes
        1.5. Ralph Giles

   2. Recent Developments

        2.1. Emmett at GDC

   [2]Previous Issues of Ogg Traffic

1. Status Updates

1.1. Monty

   Monty finished up the last bits and documentation for the crosslapping
   API that I mentioned last week. In the process, he cleaned up the
   vorbisfile seeking code, and improved the accuracy of post-seek
   bitrate tracking.

   Details about this recent round of changes and a call for widespread
   testing can be found in [3]this message.

1.2. Michael Smith

   Mike is unstoppable and sent in another avalanche of improvements to
   icecast. This time around, his improvements include:
     * Support listening on multiple sockets.
     * Support for shoutcast source protocol added.
     * Started implementing generic admin interface. Supports (so far):
          + dynamic configuration of mount fallbacks
          + setting of mp3 metadata
          + dumping raw xml stats
          + listing all connected clients on a mountpoint:

1.3. Brendan Cully

   In addition to making some improvements to the ices and libshout build
   systems, Brendan has merged the ices-libshout_2 of ices 0.x into
   mainline CVS. Anyone that is using the combination of ices 0.x and
   libshout 2 should switch to mainline with cvs update -A to get future
   updates, as the branch will no longer be maintained.

1.4. Karl Heyes

   After contributing a number of valuable icecast patches, Karl has now
   become a full member of the development team with write access to the
   CVS repository. His first round of commits includes improvements to
   the build system and other miscellaneous improvements.

1.5. Ralph Giles

   Ralph committed a patch to Theora from Dan Miller. This patch makes
   the encoder write the codebooks into the file header so they're not
   needed in the decoder. This breaks compatibility with alpha 1, but it
   will allow future improvements to the encoder without having to change
   the file format or the decoder.

2. Recent Developments

2.1. Emmett at GDC

   Emmett traveled to the Game Developers Conference in San Jose to
   continue his quest to take over the world with cool Xiph stuff, only
   to discover that this part of the world had already surrendered before
   he got there! He reported the following impression from GDC:

   "The most interesting thing I saw there was rampant Vorbis adoption.
   You couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone either currently
   using Vorbis or using it for their next game. It was quite strange,
   actually. More people know about Vorbis at GDC than [at] LinuxWorld
   Expo. The most common response to 'Are you [using] or are you planning
   to use Ogg Vorbis?' was 'Well, duh.'"

   This response is actually not surprising, since game developers have a
   natural need for good multimedia technology, and if it's free, that's
   even better. Quite a few developers have wondered why we don't have a
   web site for game developers. The answer is that such a thing takes
   time, but we are seriously thinking about it.

References

   1. mailto:carsten at xiph.org
   2. http://www.vorbis.com/ot/
   3. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200303/0030.html

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