Ogg Vorbis 1.0

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!

Comments

Re:Woohoo!

[Sinistar2k]

WTF are you talking about?

Backwards compatibility with pre-release versions? Uh, yeah. Since the RC's were started, OGGs have worked right up through the chain (or at least mine have).

Now, if the next release means you can't play any previously encoded OGGs, then go ahead and repost your rant.

The march of OSS

[BeowulfSchaeffer]

Mozilla 1.0, OpenOffice 1.0, now Vorbis 1.0. This year should be considered a watershed year for open source software. It is great to see things coming together like this.

All servers down - thank you slashdot!

[Skuto]

All xiph.org and vorbis.com servers have been taken down to prevent slashdotting untill the mirroring is completed.

Thank you slashdot, you just ed us.

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GCP

Re:All servers down - thank you slashdot!

[jandrese]

Just how long is it going to take to mirror Ogg Vorbis? Last time I downloaded it all three[1] tar.gzs together were less than a meg. It's not like they're mirroring Gnome or Mozilla. Heck, I can CVSup and entire FreeBSD ports tree quicker than these guys are mirroring Ogg.

[1] libogg, libvorbis, and vorbistools

Re:All servers down - thank you slashdot!

[sporty]

Maybe it's time slashdot doesn't do software announcements since you have to download the software from their site to begin with. And since we have access to all cvs code up to release, this doesn't help.

Why not let the freshmeat.net handle the software stuff. At least then, it is a matter of the author announcing it and all you have to do is point to freshmeat and say, "look! it's out! see!?"

-s

Now begins the hardest part...

[atcurtis]

Adoption.

Any piece of technology, no matter how open, free or innovative is useless unless adopted and widely used.

Microsoft uses Market Development Funds to "assist" adoption of their stuff... Such funds are usually in the form of paid holidays to some exotic location for some key executive/manager of companies.

Opensource usually cannot afford such gimmics and rely solely on the merits of the technology.

We can hope (and prey for the religeous among us) that the powers that be at the corporations like the BBC, CNN, ITN, News-Corp etc realise what is the best way to go and don't get their decisions bought by a company which is willing to spend millions of dollars on MDF.

Use Google, silly

[mblase]

from (http://www.nouturn.com/goodies/):

Goodie #1: Ogg Vorbis QuickTime Component
This allows the user to play Ogg files in most QuickTime applications. As for iTunes support, this will soon be available. At the moment, iTunes doesn't use the standard QuickTime protocol, so it doesn't automatically take advantage of the component. Bad Apple! Not following your own standards!

A quick search turns up several iTunes plug-ins for visualizations, but not for audio codecs. I don't think the new iTunes 3 changes this. Developing plug-ins for iPod would be a whole 'nother ball o' wax. So I think you're out of luck.

Re:Hopefully, R3mix.net will pick this up

[miracle69]

Well,
What is the recommendation for OGG to produce CD-Quality sound - regardless of bitrate?

Is it still 256k? Is it 192k? Do you tell the VBR to go between 192 and 320? I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of ogg (yet), but I will convert as soon as I find some (or do some) good analysis between OGG and CD audio.