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The Future of Ogg Vorbis

Posted by Hemos on from the patent-free-royalty-free dept.

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.

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  1. Late post! by anonymouZ+coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This one is for LEFT EYE! RIP!

    King of Beers!

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  3. Re:Blackout Week!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Hrm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hrm? Damn, wasn't able to make the first post.

    Greetings.

  5. Re:Tales from Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:Unfortunately... by dinivin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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

  7. Re:Too bad my moderation points expired.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why can't you metamoderate then?

  8. Re:Emacs by ichimunki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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)

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  9. Re:Too little, too late by Fastball · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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