[vorbis] Updated OggDrop ?

[John Edwards]

Hi,

Thanks for the interest and the comments.

I'll certainly give consideration to your suggestions. Watch this space!!

Your comments about the dll usage are pertinent. The earlier versions were
indeed dynamic, and I may look at that again for the reasons you give.

Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions.

John

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Subject: Re: [vorbis] Updated OggDrop ?

<p>> John;
>
> I didn't know you were the author of Oggdrop or involved with the
rarewares
> page.  Hi;
>
>
> > I have reorganised the OggVorbis page so that there is no doubt about
what
> > libraries were used in the compiles.
>
> Thanks;  That does make it clearer.
>
> One other change that I might suggest would be to put a comment in the
Garf
> section that it is only suitable for quality above 5.  Just as a reminder
to
> people, and as a notice to new people who might not be entirely familiar
> with the differences between the regular version and the Garf version.
>
> > However, as the author of oggdropXPd, may I say that the version number
of
> > oggdropXPd is independent of the version of the libraries it is compiled
> > against. It would be misleading to bump the version number of the 1.0.1
> > compile compared to the GT3b1 compile as the features within oggdropXPd
> are
>
> I don't think so.
>
> I mean, you've got two very different versions there.  One based on the
> regular Vorbis code and the other on the tuned Garf code.
>
> Now your own oggdrop code is the same.  It's just the included vorbis code
> that is different.  BUT they do encode quite differently.  So from the
> outside it does appear to be two very different versions even though your
> drop code is the same.
>
> Still, the changes that were made to the web page do make that difference
a
> lot clearer.
>
> You know....  Have you thought about the possibility of letting OggDrop
just
> use a DLL in the directory?  That way OggDrop doesn't need to be updated
at
> all.  People just include which ever version (regular or garf) they want.
> And if none is found then perhaps use the defualt version compiled in?
Just
> a thought, although I guess it would be more useful if Vorbis was updated
a
> little more often than it currently is.
>
> It's a shame OggDrop can't include both and automatically use Garf when
> appropriate.  (At least until 2007 when Vorbis 1.1 is finally released
that
> combines both of them.  Although according to HydrogenAudio Garf is likely
> to come out with a new version in the not too distant future that is built
> upon 1.0.1.)
>
>
> Anyway, thanks for the update to the web page.
>
>
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