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Ogg Vorbis 1.0

Posted by michael on from the bog-vigors dept.

uvasmith writes "According to the Ogg Vorbis website... Release 1.0 is now ready and tagged as 'vorbis1_0_public_release' in CVS. This is a full release of a 1.0 encoder, decoder and tool set. The encoder, decoder and tools now implement all Vorbis 1.0 specification features including low-bitrate, cascading and channel coupling." Update: 07/19 17:05 GMT by C :It seems someone jumped the gun a bit in mentioning the release, but now it's official! Check out the download page, the letter from their CEO and (if you wish) cough up a few bucks at the donation page! For those audiophiles among us, you can check out a side-by-side audio comparison here. Oh, and don't forget the free music!

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  1. oggenc -1 mode by calc · · Score: 5, Informative

    oggenc now has a -1 quality mode with a nominal bitrate of 45kbps. It actually sounds very good try it out.

    1. Re:oggenc -1 mode by RadioheadKid · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well for music, WMA 64kbs vs. Ogg 64kbs, I definetly believed WMA beat ogg vorbis RC3, but not anymore. Ogg Vorbis 1.0 at 64kbs (quality setting 0) is amazing. Beats WMA hands down. In a some cases Ogg Vorbis 64kbs beats the poorer MP3 encoders at 128kbs.

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  2. The Vorbis Way by boa13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    To quote irc.openprojects.net/#vorbis:

    <xercist> sites are down, and staying that way until it's ready. period.

    And slightly afterwards:

    <xiphmont> Hello. Slashdot jumped the gun. So that we can actually get to our own servers, xiph.org and vorbis.com have both been taken down so that we can finish the release in peace. Or at all.

  3. Re:Serious question: iTunes by pigpen_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can get a beta quicktime component that will allow you to play oggs in iTunes and other quicktime aware apps. The iPod does it's mp3 decoding on hardware and there is not currently a solution for software decoding. I wouldn't expect one any time soon either.

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  4. Re:Still no specification by Skuto · · Score: 5, Informative

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    A reference implementation is great and all, but until they get off their arses and release an exact specification of the Ogg format and codec, it's never going to take off.
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>

    Vorbis 1.0 comes with a full specification.

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  5. Ogg Vorbis is public domain, BSD, and GPL. by kjoonlee · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Ogg Vorbis format itself is public domain.

    The reference library is BSD-ish.

    The reference tools are GPLed.

  6. Try Speex too by jmv · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought some of you could be interested in my project Speex (http://speex.sourceforge.net), which is like Vorbis but optimized for speech. Bit-rates ranging from 8 kbps to 32 kbps for good quality speech...

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  7. Blame can lie in any of 4 places by yerricde · · Score: 5, Informative

    I find that when I "rip" music from CDs into OOG Vorbis Format that it has poor playback quality (very crackly).

    Does the same thing happen when you rip from CD into .wav without encoding to .ogg or .mp3? What happens when you look at the .wav in a spectrogram?

    If you hear crackling from the .wav, and you can see it on a spectrogram (it'll look like vertical lines through the whole spectrum), then you're seeing copy protection or some other form of physical CD damage.

    If you hear crackling from the wav, but you can't see it on a spectrogram, check your audio drivers.

    If you don't hear crackling from the wav, then use the reference encoder and decoder (oggenc and ogg123) to turn .wav into .ogg into .wav. If you get crackling from this, then libvorbis is at fault.

    If wav->ogg->wav->player works, but wav->ogg->player doesn't work through the same player, contact the developers of the player.

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  8. Re:Lesson Learned... by boa13 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lesson to be learned here:
    Mirror everything before announcing the release.

    Tell that to Michael. The Vorbis team was mirroring everything when he leaked the story. The release has not been announced yet.

  9. Transcoding == Bad by xercist · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, since I see this asked 5x a day on #vorbis, I'm going to tell everyone now.

    If you have an mp3 collection, and want to use ogg instead, please do not convert the mp3s to oggs. It's like faxing a document, then re-faxing the fax. It just gets all unreadable. The result is that people will hear the ogg file and think "Oh my god this sucks! Ogg really blows! I'm not using this format!".

    If you have the original CD, rip it and encode. If you don't, keep the mp3s.

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  10. -q Quality:Bitrate graphs by xercist · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've spent time generating graphs of vorbis 1.0 encoder's output bitrate vs the -q (quality) setting input. They're very cool looking. enjoy.

    http://www.lammah.com/~xercist/vorbis/bitrate-grap h/1.0/

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  11. Re:The march of OSS by GeckoX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Moz unuseable with DHTML?
    Um, stick to the standards dumbass, not the IE standards and you'd be just fine.

    Um, untested...You don't consider 3 YEARS of open public testing and bug tracking to be testing?

    I know you're just flaming, but you're also a fuckwit.

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