New Version Of Ogg Audio Encoder

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New Version Of Ogg Audio Encoder

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:53PM from the sounds-good dept.

drapmeyer writes "Xiph.org has released a new version of the Ogg/Vorbis endocer: libOgg1.1.2 and libVorbis1.1.0. Point your browsers to the tarball for maximum excitement. Changes include several platform and build fixes, documentation for multiplexed streams, and other goodies. Also look at rarewares."

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Oh, but... by rincebrain · 2004-09-26 19:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Does it fix any buffer overflow bugs? ;-)

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1. Re:Oh, but... by noselasd · 2004-09-26 21:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  0% of the known overflow bugs are fixed.
  (or 100% of them depending on your view)
2. Re:Oh, but... by rincebrain · 2004-09-26 22:30 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  0%!? Oh no!
  
  This must be horribly insecure!
  
  *converts all of his oggs to wav*
  
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Yeah, but... by Gogo+Dodo · 2004-09-26 20:13 · Score: 2, Funny

...does it play OGG?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
1. Re:Yeah, but... by shfted! · 2004-09-26 20:19 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Considering that OGG is just a container format, the answer depends on what's inside that container.
  
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2. Re:Yeah, but... by Gogo+Dodo · 2004-09-26 20:54 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, I know that OGG is just a container format.
  
  However, the phrase "OGG" has become synonymous with OGG format files containing audio compressed with the Ogg Vorbis codec. Similar to how the phrase "QuickTime" has become synonymous with QuickTime format files containing video compressed with the Sorenson codec.
3. Re:Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-26 22:25 · Score: 0
  
  "QuickTime" is not synonymous with "Sorenson Video in a .mov container" out of Slashdot.
  
  Get a clue.
4. Re:Yeah, but... by MadChicken · 2004-09-26 23:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ...does it play OGG?
  
  Well *I* got the joke. It was even funny that you were modded redundant! Actually, it should have been +1 Recursive.
  
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5. Re:Yeah, but... by magefile · 2004-09-27 02:29 · Score: 1
  
  99.9% of .movs are Sorenson. Ergo, since people call .movs QuickTime, the GP is correct.
includes new improvements by Interruach · 2004-09-26 20:27 · Score: 4, Informative

This includes the forked aoTuv improvements, that gave Vorbis a big hand up in the 128kbps listening tests on the rareware site pointed to in the top.
It's a forking good thing that it's all open source, hey? :)
1. Re:includes new improvements by julie-h · 2004-09-26 22:54 · Score: 1
  
  From what I have understood, doesn't aotuv damage the high fequencies. Is that the difference?
  
  Will every quality setting benefit from this?
OGG and consumer products by tod_miller · 2004-09-26 20:34 · Score: 2, Insightful

My DVD player supports MP3, CDA, region free DVD, VCD, SVCD et al.

I wish it played OGG! I guess I need one of those quirky WiFi streaming thingies(TM) that will allow me to play audio from my computer, to my input on the DVD, and play it through my nice speakers... and the video too...

How do you go about making your computer (which is tucked away nicely in todays equivilent of a shed, where you can erm, smoke you pipe and not be hassled by your partner) the center of your multimedia experience in the living room? With you nipple erecting projector screen and 5.1 surround?

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1. Re:OGG and consumer products by bhima · 2004-09-27 00:19 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  You get 2 computers and some Cat 5e.
  If your shed like device is not attached to the rest of the house, I suggest you stick the cat 5 in some PVC pipe or something, when you run it under ground
  Oh.. and just be sure the nipple erecting area is close enough to the shed, I think the limit is like 100m or something.
  
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2. Re:OGG and consumer products by Abcd1234 · 2004-09-28 05:46 · Score: 1
  
  the nipple erecting area
  
  Must... not... make... juvenile joke...
3. Re:OGG and consumer products by bhima · 2004-09-28 06:06 · Score: 1
  
  Why not this is /. and it's mostly too late.
  
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Links please? by skamp · 2004-09-26 20:42 · Score: 2, Informative

The story links to version 1.1.1 of libOgg, and tarballs for libOgg 1.1.2 and libVorbis 1.1.0 are nowhere to be found, not even on vorbis.com.
1. Re:Links please? by croddy · 2004-09-26 22:30 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  look again...
  libvorbis-1.1.0.tar.gz
  libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz
2. Re:Links please? by some+guy+I+know · 2004-09-26 23:24 · Score: 1
  
  Stripping the filename from the link to the tarball results in a link to this directory, which contains the libogg tarball that you wanted (as well as zips).
  Slightly modifying the link points to this directory, which contains the vorbis stuff.
  
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Re:Why not back port the AoTuV fix? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-26 22:57 · Score: 0

It seams from a previous post, that they have :)
Some notes and then the changlog by mmortal03 · 2004-09-26 23:00 · Score: 5, Informative

The aoTuV tunings have been found to be a large improvement. You can now use the standard Vorbis encoder again for top quality.

Most people in the scene have been using third party tunings and tweaks for a while, and this integration of the best 3rd party tuning results into the standard release after some intensive listening tests has been long awaited.

Here is the changelog:

libvorbis 1.1.0 (2004-09-22) -- "Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20040629"

* merges tuning improvements from Aoyumi's aoTuV with fixups
* new managed bitrate (CBR) mode support
* new vorbis_encoder_ctl() interface
* extensive documentation updates
* application/ogg mimetype is now official
* autotools cleanup from Thomas Vander Stichele
* SymbianOS build support from Colin Ward at CSIRO
* various bugfixes
* various packaging improvements
1. Re:Some notes and then the changlog by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-26 23:42 · Score: 0
  
  application/ogg mimetype is now official
  
  I know it's not the Ogg developers' fault, but media types really need overhauling. When there's only application/ogg, there's no way for an HTTP client to indicate that some forms of Ogg (e.g. Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex) are acceptable while others aren't. This makes it impossible to do content negotation (i.e. it's impossible to transparently serve differently-coded Ogg files depending upon what the client supports).
  
  Media types should really be able to have any number of subtypes, so, for example, you could have application/ogg/vorbis and application/ogg/speex.
  
  In any case, it wasn't the libvorbis 1.1.1 release that made application/ogg official, it was the publishing of RFC 3534.
Forgive my noobness by Kizzle · 2004-09-27 06:54 · Score: 1

Maybe I've been going about this all wrong but encoding in OGG never works out for me. I have looked around for tutorials on encoding but have not found anything helpful. Encoding with Lame is as simple as "lame -m -b 24 bla.wav". OGG is somewhat of a mystery to me. Can someone shed light on it with some links to resources and tutorials? I would really like to move away from closed formats like MP3.

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1. Re:Forgive my noobness by stuie · 2004-09-27 09:47 · Score: 1
  
  All you need is:
  oggenc FILENAME.wav
  
  For a list of options, try:
  oggenc --help
  
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2. Re:Forgive my noobness by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-28 05:58 · Score: 0
  
  No, sorry, it's just too difficult for you to understand.
Then just try grip by vlad_petric · 2004-09-27 07:26 · Score: 1

Get it here.
Need I say more?

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