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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!"

3 of 329 comments (clear)

  1. 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 :-)

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

    Ogg the Conqueror?

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

  3. "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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