Fw: [Vorbis] Would Xiph be interested in a logo redesign for Vorbis?

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 06:48:32 PDT 2006


PEP wrote:
> With MP3's we must differ between decoding ability (i.e. correctly converting a stream of MP3 data into PCM) and 'additional support', e.g. ID3 tag reading, Unicode support, Unicode/long filename support, etc. IOW, MP3 players properly conforming to MP3 standard is not required to support tags & unicode at all.
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> I think Vorbis' specs are quite explicit, at least up to VorbisComments. So it is quite easy to make test files. I think we must make test files from -q -2 up to and including -q 10, in .5 steps Then the Vorbis logo can be designed e.g. like this:
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> For a fully-compliant implementation:
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> For a half-complying implementation (e.g. for CPU use?)
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> 

I may be wrong, but it was my belief that files produced by the current
reference encoder do not require all the features specified for the
decoder.  Analogous to an mp3 test suite that checked different stereo
couplings modes and features like VBR.

-- 
imalone



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