[vorbis] Ogg Traffic for March 24, 2003

[Carsten Haese]

Hi everybody:

Here is this week's Ogg Traffic. The HTML version is available at
http://www.vorbis.com/ot/20030324.html

Enjoy!

<p>Ogg Traffic for Monday, March 24, 2003

[1]Carsten "Purple" Haese

   March 24, 2003
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   Table of Contents

   1. Status Updates

        1.1. Monty
        1.2. Stan Seibert
        1.3. Michael Smith
        1.4. Brendan Cully
        1.5. Karl Heyes
        1.6. Jean-Marc Valin
        1.7. Nathan Sharfi

   2. Recent Developments

        2.1. Speex goes 1.0, Xiph.org goes 501(c)3
        2.2. New Icecast2 Binary for Win32

   [2]Previous Issues of Ogg Traffic

1. Status Updates

1.1. Monty

   Monty committed lots of libogg2 changes, and subjected the functions
   for byte-aligned access to merciless unit tests, which they passed
   with flying colors.

1.2. Stan Seibert

   Stan's work on positron is moving along nicely. He is making good
   progress on the part that parses the on-device database.

1.3. Michael Smith

   Mike fixed a few small icecast bugs, and he found some time to work a
   bit on the vorbis-tools. He fixed a small memory leak in oggdec and
   patched ogginfo to return a status code that indicates the integrity
   of the input stream.

1.4. Brendan Cully

   Brendan added code to ices that attempts to trim junk and short
frames
   from MP3 files to eliminate chirps that occasionally occurred between
   songs. He also fixed mono to stereo reencoding in ices, and cleaned
up
   the libshout code a bit.

1.5. Karl Heyes

   Among some ices and libshout bugfixes, Karl committed lots of patches
   to tweak the autotools build systems for ices and libshout.

1.6. Jean-Marc Valin

   After a big round of mostly cosmetic fixes to Speex, Jean-Marc
decided
   to call the result the official Speex 1.0 release! More about this
   below.

1.7. Nathan Sharfi

   Nathan is busy maintaining and enhancing all the different websites
   that live under Xiph.org's umbrella. His goal is to give the pages a
   more navigable structure and to make them more accessible and
   standards compliant.

   He is also working on migrating the FLAC pages to the Xiph.org
server,
   which is still underway due to technical problems.

2. Recent Developments

2.1. Speex goes 1.0, Xiph.org goes 501(c)3

   You may have heard the news [3]elsewhere, but just in case you
   haven't, it is my pleasure to announce that Xiph.org has reached two
   milestones in short succession.

   The first milestone is the official first release of the [4]Speex
   speech compression codec.

   The second milestone is that Xiph.org is now a federally recognized
   charitable organization under 501(c)3 status. If you live in the U.S.
   and have money to spare, please donate to Xiph.org and get a tax
break
   in return.

   More details about these two events can be found in this tandem
   [5]press release.

2.2. New Icecast2 Binary for Win32

   [6]Oddsock, maker of Oddcast DSP and other fine streaming tools, has
   built and packaged a new Icecast binary for Win32 systems fresh out
of
   CVS. The binary reflects the development status as of March 19th and
   is available [7]on this page.

References

   1. mailto:carsten at xiph.org
   2. http://www.vorbis.com/ot/
   3. http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/24/127210.shtml?tid=141&tid=162
   4. http://www.speex.org/
   5. http://www.xiph.org/press/2003/nonprofitspeex1/
   6. http://www.oddsock.org/
   7. http://www.oddsock.org/tools/icecast2/
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