Panos' audio test has been ridiculed all over the audio compression world. Look here for a review of some reviews, including the Panos' test (ekei.com)
Better tests to refer to would be ff123's test or the new C'T test (which IMHO isn't as good as ff123's). There were some complaints about C'T not using the optimal settings for Ogg Vorbis but it didn't method since Ogg Vorbis clearly won the test anyway.
Every time it appears on Slashdot, it "dies a little bit more each time". Geez, are we all not sick and tired of reading about Napter dying every week?
Do you think Winamp might go the way of Freeamp which has to be renamed to Zinf (zinf is not freeamp) so as not to infringe on trademarks?
Zinf is based on the FreeAmp® source code. However, AMP® is a trademark of PlayMedia Systems, Inc., and therefore the original name of the project cannot be used anylonger. On this website the old project will be referred to as FreeA*p.
I've never seen Dell and Linux been linked together before. Dell advertises very heavily here, but all their system runs MS operating systems, I've never seen any option for Linux or other operating system, so I've always assumed they have been suckered by MS or something. And now they are involved with this Linux thing... can someone shed some light on this please?
Well, they could do it the same way as a LAME MP3 Encoder does it. The source codes are for educational purposes only and should not be compiled. There. Similarly this project can just exist as a design. There is no hardware. Please do not try to fabricate, this is illegal. Heh.
It really all depends on the purpose of putting up the cameras. Red-light cameras have been used in Singapore for over a decade, there hasn't been much of a complaint. The purpose of the red-light cameras are to act as a deterrant, not to generate revenue. And it works. The important thing, of course is to make the cameras really obvious (anyone can see them), and if that's not enough, there are signs about 50m before the junction warning motorists that there is a red light camera at the upcoming junction. Also, these cameras are not put up in places because of high traffic, but rather in places with lower traffic but where complaints of motorists running the red light is high, e.g. a traffic junction crossing a main road and a seldomly used road where motorists often thing it doesn't matter as there are few vehicles coming from the side road. Or traffic lights not at a junction but for pedestrian crossing. I believe these cameras have improved safety a lot, and it's probably well worth the effort.
...that they are releasing the full source codes for RTCW before the full source codes for Quake 3 Arena has been released, although Q3A has been released far earlier. I think these are just the source codes for Mods (RTCW Fortress / RTCW CounterStrike anyone?). Q3A has the Mod source codes released some time ago too.
...to be the next biggest thing, we need more hardware support for Ogg Vorbis players. Please sign this petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/vorb123/petition.htm l which aims to convince hardware manufacturers to include ogg vorbis support in their products. Many people are complaining that they can't make the move to Ogg Vorbis unless it gets hardware support. If we can get enough signatures to convince manufacturers to start supporting Ogg Vorbis, this is the biggest barrier overcome.
This is a petition which has just reached over 1000 signatures, and will be sent to portable audio player companies asking them to support Ogg Vorbis in their upcoming players. Please support the petition and sign. Thanks. http://www.petitiononline.com/vorb123/petition.htm l
The problem with Ogg Tarkin it is still pretty much an experiment, using techniques which is way ahead of its time. 3d wavelets haven't been heard of in any other standard which are under development.
XviD, however, exists today. It is a fully GPL'ed MPEG4 codec. However, it cannot exist legally in any form other than an experiment because the MPEG4 license still has to be paid for in order to use XviD. XviD, like LAME, will mostly exist as CVS sourcecodes under guise as an experiment, with many rogue sites around the world providing binaries (usually with automated daily compiling).
Personally, I wouldn't count on the quality of VP4 being anything earthshattering. Tests of VP3 quite clearly shows that it is behind DivX3, DivX4 and XviD in terms of quality, so something has to really shape up. This might probably be due to a lack of 2-pass VBR encoding feature in VP3.
Meanwhile I will just continue to encode my rips in XviD, encode the audio with Vorbis and mux them together into an Ogg container. If VP4 or VP5 really turns out to be good enough, I would probably try to find a way to mux that video stream into the Ogg container too.
Interesting. Does that mean the BBC will be getting a hell out of a deal not having to pay licenses with Ogg Vorbis streams as well not needing to pay any broadcasting license?
I know of almost no games that have been released in time
Ultima Underworld II was released 1 month ahead of schedule and remained one of favourite games of all time, and surprise, it wasn't buggy! I still remember the pleasant surprise I had walking into my games store seeing the game in demoed a full month before it was supposed to be released.
Here in Singapore, ISPs are required by law to block port 80, forcing all outgoing http requests to go through a proxy server (which filters out webpages which are deemed unsuitable for Singaporeans to view, including www.playboy.com), or to have a transparent proxy server blocking out such requests.
This has caused me many problems before, when my IP gets determined wrongly by the remote site (which naturally thinks takes the proxy server's IP for my IP address). Some applications don't like the transparent proxy either, for example Frontpage Extension (not my choice to use!), and an autopatching program which refused to download the latest version of a file, insisting on downloading only the file cached in the proxy server until the cache gets flushed.
The only real method of bypassing the proxy is to use another proxy server (since 8080 isn't blocked) outside the ISP's network. This tends to be really slow though.
I guess I have to live with this until the government one day realises that proxy servers cannot stop the people from viewing pr0n, and it's probably not worth maintaining the proxy servers to meet the demands of all the net users in Singapore, not to mention maintaining the list of sites to block.
If you would really like to see Ogg Vorbis support in future players, please sign the petition here.
A poll on the type of MP3 players people own also yield some interesting results.
American Jedi has got to be my favourite Star Wars parody. Check it out while you wait for the Slashdot effect to pass on Pulp Phantom, it's very well worth it.
After all, a lot of American law look like only the Chinese would have thought of it, you know like the DMCA, SSSCA.... afterall, they do come from a place with less freedom than the US, don't they?
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It looks like Divx5 is released, and DivXnetworks are resorting to implanting spyware (or charging $30 for the pro version) to offset the licensing costs.
This might have some effect on the XviD (open sourced derivative of DivX) though, but looks like it will go the same way as the LAME MP3 encoder, as discussed in this thread
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Panos' audio test has been ridiculed all over the audio compression world. Look here for a review of some reviews, including the Panos' test (ekei.com)
Better tests to refer to would be ff123's test or the new C'T test (which IMHO isn't as good as ff123's). There were some complaints about C'T not using the optimal settings for Ogg Vorbis but it didn't method since Ogg Vorbis clearly won the test anyway.
Every time it appears on Slashdot, it "dies a little bit more each time". Geez, are we all not sick and tired of reading about Napter dying every week?
Optimizing your BIOS settings is not enough to prevent your server from being slashdotted...
the three sea shells?
Do you think Winamp might go the way of Freeamp which has to be renamed to Zinf (zinf is not freeamp) so as not to infringe on trademarks?
Zinf is based on the FreeAmp® source code. However, AMP® is a trademark of PlayMedia Systems, Inc., and therefore the original name of the project cannot be used anylonger. On this website the old project will be referred to as FreeA*p.
You would probably still need to spend CPU cycles for post-processing such as resizing and some noise filtering.
Currently it is possible to transcode multi channel DVD audio to multi channel Ogg Vorbis.
I guess we don't need those Sony infrared cameras anymore for some voyeur pr0n.
I've never seen Dell and Linux been linked together before. Dell advertises very heavily here, but all their system runs MS operating systems, I've never seen any option for Linux or other operating system, so I've always assumed they have been suckered by MS or something. And now they are involved with this Linux thing... can someone shed some light on this please?
Well, they could do it the same way as a LAME MP3 Encoder does it. The source codes are for educational purposes only and should not be compiled. There. Similarly this project can just exist as a design. There is no hardware. Please do not try to fabricate, this is illegal. Heh.
It really all depends on the purpose of putting up the cameras. Red-light cameras have been used in Singapore for over a decade, there hasn't been much of a complaint. The purpose of the red-light cameras are to act as a deterrant, not to generate revenue. And it works. The important thing, of course is to make the cameras really obvious (anyone can see them), and if that's not enough, there are signs about 50m before the junction warning motorists that there is a red light camera at the upcoming junction. Also, these cameras are not put up in places because of high traffic, but rather in places with lower traffic but where complaints of motorists running the red light is high, e.g. a traffic junction crossing a main road and a seldomly used road where motorists often thing it doesn't matter as there are few vehicles coming from the side road. Or traffic lights not at a junction but for pedestrian crossing. I believe these cameras have improved safety a lot, and it's probably well worth the effort.
Remember the good old days when SPISPOPD was used to dampen the hype around Doom?
...that they are releasing the full source codes for RTCW before the full source codes for Quake 3 Arena has been released, although Q3A has been released far earlier. I think these are just the source codes for Mods (RTCW Fortress / RTCW CounterStrike anyone?). Q3A has the Mod source codes released some time ago too.
...to be the next biggest thing, we need more hardware support for Ogg Vorbis players. Please sign this petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/vorb123/petition.htm l which aims to convince hardware manufacturers to include ogg vorbis support in their products. Many people are complaining that they can't make the move to Ogg Vorbis unless it gets hardware support. If we can get enough signatures to convince manufacturers to start supporting Ogg Vorbis, this is the biggest barrier overcome.
This is a petition which has just reached over 1000 signatures, and will be sent to portable audio player companies asking them to support Ogg Vorbis in their upcoming players. Please support the petition and sign. Thanks. http://www.petitiononline.com/vorb123/petition.htm l
The problem with Ogg Tarkin it is still pretty much an experiment, using techniques which is way ahead of its time. 3d wavelets haven't been heard of in any other standard which are under development.
XviD, however, exists today. It is a fully GPL'ed MPEG4 codec. However, it cannot exist legally in any form other than an experiment because the MPEG4 license still has to be paid for in order to use XviD. XviD, like LAME, will mostly exist as CVS sourcecodes under guise as an experiment, with many rogue sites around the world providing binaries (usually with automated daily compiling).
Personally, I wouldn't count on the quality of VP4 being anything earthshattering. Tests of VP3 quite clearly shows that it is behind DivX3, DivX4 and XviD in terms of quality, so something has to really shape up. This might probably be due to a lack of 2-pass VBR encoding feature in VP3. Meanwhile I will just continue to encode my rips in XviD, encode the audio with Vorbis and mux them together into an Ogg container. If VP4 or VP5 really turns out to be good enough, I would probably try to find a way to mux that video stream into the Ogg container too.
Interesting. Does that mean the BBC will be getting a hell out of a deal not having to pay licenses with Ogg Vorbis streams as well not needing to pay any broadcasting license?
I immediately walked right into the moat and got eaten by alligators when I started the game! Just like the old times! Damn I miss this game :)
Second thing which happened was pushing the rock from the wrong side... ouch!
I know of almost no games that have been released in time
Ultima Underworld II was released 1 month ahead of schedule and remained one of favourite games of all time, and surprise, it wasn't buggy! I still remember the pleasant surprise I had walking into my games store seeing the game in demoed a full month before it was supposed to be released.
Here in Singapore, ISPs are required by law to block port 80, forcing all outgoing http requests to go through a proxy server (which filters out webpages which are deemed unsuitable for Singaporeans to view, including www.playboy.com), or to have a transparent proxy server blocking out such requests.
This has caused me many problems before, when my IP gets determined wrongly by the remote site (which naturally thinks takes the proxy server's IP for my IP address). Some applications don't like the transparent proxy either, for example Frontpage Extension (not my choice to use!), and an autopatching program which refused to download the latest version of a file, insisting on downloading only the file cached in the proxy server until the cache gets flushed.
The only real method of bypassing the proxy is to use another proxy server (since 8080 isn't blocked) outside the ISP's network. This tends to be really slow though.
I guess I have to live with this until the government one day realises that proxy servers cannot stop the people from viewing pr0n, and it's probably not worth maintaining the proxy servers to meet the demands of all the net users in Singapore, not to mention maintaining the list of sites to block.
I believe Sarah Connor survived the first Terminator by crushing him with a trash compactor back in T1.
Oh, you mean *that* T1.
If you would really like to see Ogg Vorbis support in future players, please sign the petition here.
A poll on the type of MP3 players people own also yield some interesting results.
American Jedi has got to be my favourite Star Wars parody. Check it out while you wait for the Slashdot effect to pass on Pulp Phantom, it's very well worth it.
After all, a lot of American law look like only the Chinese would have thought of it, you know like the DMCA, SSSCA.... afterall, they do come from a place with less freedom than the US, don't they?
It looks like Divx5 is released, and DivXnetworks are resorting to implanting spyware (or charging $30 for the pro version) to offset the licensing costs. This might have some effect on the XviD (open sourced derivative of DivX) though, but looks like it will go the same way as the LAME MP3 encoder, as discussed in this thread