The Future of Ogg Vorbis

Brett writes "The author of MAD, the fixed point MP3 decoder comments on what is wrong with Ogg Vorbis, with a response from jack, one of the founders of the format. "Ogg Vorbis may be the holy grail of patent-free audio compression, but there are some serious issues blocking its path to widespread acceptance. Unfortunately most of us are powerless to correct the situation; the problems must be addressed by Vorbis' creators. " The rest of the of the story is currently running on K5." And Jack's response is enlightening as well.

Comments

Re:Unfortunately...

[dinivin]

you copy FROM emacs into galeon?

Yes

are you running an X version of emacs?

Nope.

$ ldd /usr/bin/emacs-nox
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4002a000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4006b000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4008e000)
libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x401cc000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


You do realize, don't you, that you can run emacs in an xterm?

Dinivin

Re:Emacs

[ichimunki]

ctrl-e ctrl-e under lynx to launch a browser? Isn't lynx already a browser? :)

That said, I have less trouble cutting and pasting (raw text) on X Windows than I do on Win2. Hard to beat drag-select and middle-click.

And what's the original complaint, that text editing is more fun in emacs than in a graphical browser? Why not run the browser in emacs too then? Or find another text editor temporarily ... here's a Perl text editor (requires the Tk module) that should make copying/pasting in X Windows a breeze:

perl -MTk -e "$W=Tk::MainWindow->new;$t=$W->Scrolled( 'Text' )->pack;MainLoop;"

Won't save your document, but right-clicking in the text field gives you a range of other handy text functions.

(Note: I tested this on Windows2000, where it was seemingly impossible to copy from the command window to paste to any other window)

Re:Too little, too late

[Fastball]

Yeah, but Ogg Vorbis's sushi in seaweed dish is unstoppable.