BladeEnc Development Officially Discontinued

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @01:29AM from the for-the-best-of-reasons dept.

skojt writes: "I saw on the Swedish site gnuheter.org that Tord Jansson has announced that he discontinues development of BladeEnc. He says that he is tired of lawyers, that Lame does a better job for the average user and that Ogg Vorbis is a better choice." BladeEnc fans need not worry too much, though -- Jansson also says on the site "My devotion to the free software movement is as strong as ever and I just love to tinker with code, so you can be quite sure that you haven't seen the last of me yet."

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Perhaps he could work with the Theora project? by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · 2002-08-14 04:12 · Score: 3, Insightful

If he's into multimedia and codecs and such. I'd love to see usable code come out of the Ogg/Theora project soon - especially an encoder...

He's obviously got talent and experience with related coding from BladeENC, and Theora has a similar goal ("free" multimedia for wide use)...

Not that I'm anxious to see Theora take off or anything :-)

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