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Ogg Vorbis RC3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the need-more-hardware-players dept.

xercist writes: "Let's start 2002 off with some good news! The long awaited RC3 release of the Ogg project's Vorbis codec is now out. Major changes include much improvement in the quality to bitrate ratio, ability to specify a hard bitrate min/max to the encoder (good for streaming), and an entirely new bitrate management engine which can emulate CBR, do constrained bitrates, and will accept quality settings via the -q flag from 0 through 10 in .00000001 increments (currently only tuned for 44.1 KHz modes). Vorbis has kicked MP3's, WMA's, and Real's asses for a long time now, hopefully this release will change the minds of anyone yet undecided. Download RC3, then show your appreciation for all their hard work and dedication by making a donation to support the project."

6 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. DirectShow Filters would be nice by Tomji · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But thats for MS and therefore evil ;(

  2. Re:Now THAT's an open standards site! by thelexx · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    A website I created recently used PNG for about three days until clients started complaining that the graphics wouldn't display. Being a corporate site, telling them to get a newer browser wouldn't work. They'd sooner go to our competitors pages.

    LEXX

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  3. Re:Double Blind Listening Tests... Here! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    > ff123 from the r3mix.net/hydrogenaudio.org forums is conducting automated ABX double blind tests comparing Vorbis, mp3 (several encoders), AAC, WMA and MPC.

    Wonder what monolingual English speakers make of that sentence.

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  4. What we really need: by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    A simple standalone (read: CLI) converter that also converts MP3-tags correctly.

    Last time I checked (which is a couple of weeks ago, I admit) I found nothing like that.

  5. Re:MP3 vs. OGG by strangemoose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did. :)...waaaaiiiitttt... I was never in the asylum...

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  6. Don't want to Ogg you on too much, but... by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...all yolking aside, could a collection of ova within a single Ogg file be called a roe? If so, I can imagine a music shop name white now: ``Unhygenix, Oggmonger.''

    (Apologies to Goscinny and Underzo)

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