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Ogg The Conqueror? RC2 Is Out

Posted by timothy on from the lo-there-was-much-rejoicing dept.

jonathan_ingram writes: "There has been a lot of discussion recently in Slashdot about sound compression formats. Much has been focused on Ogg Vorbis, but the most recent version available has been a beta released in Feburary. Today, RC2 of Vorbis has been released. The most important of the many changes is channel coupling, which means that Vorbis can now encode bitsteams at a much lower bitrate than before. Try it out today!"

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  1. Re:OggiVorbophoniwhatigoggit by Swaffs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, lay off the punch bowl man... its not as dumb as it looks.

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  2. Re:Ogg Vorbis Quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    first time I read your comment as:

    It is my goal to replace my wife and my CD collection of 400-500 discs ...

    Current version of Ogg Vorbis can only do the later :-)

  3. Ogg The Conqueror? by jawad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ogg the Conqueror?

    Close. It's Oog the Caveman. But nice try.

  4. Re:iTunes by Unknown+Bovine+Group · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wish Apple's iTunes supported Ogg Vorbis.

    Well I'm sure somebody will hack it together soon... All they have to do is download the source co.... Oh yeah. Guess you're SOL.

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  5. Argh, that thing by xiphmont · · Score: 3, Funny

    I ran across that story after a 36 hour sleepless (well, ok, a :20 nap) hacking session pushing out rc2. Gah. Nasty.

    I was kinda surprised that it was Ogg that drove away my wife (here I thought it was my awful personality. What a relief),that I've been habitually unemployed, destitute, and that I don't even own a proper desk. Ah-heh.

    Unfortunately, the green shag carpeting part is completely true. Damn you, the 1970's! Will you never die?!

    Monty

    (Oh well, at least it seemed to be positive on Ogg)

  6. Re:OggiVorbophoniwhatigoggit by ansible · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like 'ogg' because it reminds me of netrek playing. To 'ogg' is to blow up an enemy ship that has armies. Great fun.

  7. "Patents" the wrong category/topic by FreeUser · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quoting the Ogg Vorbis website:


    Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.


    So, why is this article listed under the "patents pending" topic again?
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