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All music should be freely available for download, and it should be as easy as possible to pay for the ones you like. Some sort of proxy site would be best (go there, pay $20, and divide that money up among the artists you want to reimburse).
You have to accept the fact that music is easy to distribute and you can't stop it. People will gravitate towards the most free/open solution, and not all of them will pay money for it. Get over it, and make it easy for the ones that will pay.
True. One of the problems I see with MPEG is that it leaves so much open to the encoder. It's hard to know exactly what settings produce the right quality/bitrate, and this is where things like RealPlayer are attractive. They've spent a lot of time and money researching these things and the result is a good low bitrate default, which is what most people are looking for. However, I feel that MPEG could do comparable things with the right settings.
As for an open source video codec, I have the dead tree version of the MPEG-1 spec (ISO 11172) and I've been throwing around the idea of writing a good parallel encoder (the Berkeley one is horribly scary). It's really just a matter of finding enough time and patience to sit down and do it.
I would really rather see most of these proprietary video standards go down the drain. I think most, if not all, of the functionality is present in one of the MPEG versions. AFAIK all video encoders do the same thing: DCT with quantization, and motion compensation on top of that. Big whoopee.
I'd like to see some nice MPEG streaming software as an alternative to things like this. The tech is all there, someone just has to slap it together. I'd do it, but I'm too lazy/stupid:)
I for one will be quite happy when Dents is a suitable replacement for BIND. BIND seems to be quite old and crufty at this point, and Dents has a very nice design so far. Modular everything, and CORBA for administration. No more overloading of signals and crap like that. Whee!
Wasn't this the whole idea of both Stormix and Corel's distribution as well? I'm not so sure there's room for three "Debian for non-hacker" distributions.
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All music should be freely available for download, and it should be as easy as possible to pay for the ones you like. Some sort of proxy site would be best (go there, pay $20, and divide that money up among the artists you want to reimburse).
You have to accept the fact that music is easy to distribute and you can't stop it. People will gravitate towards the most free/open solution, and not all of them will pay money for it. Get over it, and make it easy for the ones that will pay.
True. One of the problems I see with MPEG is that it leaves so much open to the encoder. It's hard to know exactly what settings produce the right quality/bitrate, and this is where things like RealPlayer are attractive. They've spent a lot of time and money researching these things and the result is a good low bitrate default, which is what most people are looking for. However, I feel that MPEG could do comparable things with the right settings.
As for an open source video codec, I have the dead tree version of the MPEG-1 spec (ISO 11172) and I've been throwing around the idea of writing a good parallel encoder (the Berkeley one is horribly scary). It's really just a matter of finding enough time and patience to sit down and do it.
(Yet Another Crappy Proprietary Video Standard)
I would really rather see most of these proprietary video standards go down the drain. I think most, if not all, of the functionality is present in one of the MPEG versions. AFAIK all video encoders do the same thing: DCT with quantization, and motion compensation on top of that. Big whoopee.
I'd like to see some nice MPEG streaming software as an alternative to things like this. The tech is all there, someone just has to slap it together. I'd do it, but I'm too lazy/stupid :)
I for one will be quite happy when Dents is a suitable replacement for BIND. BIND seems to be quite old and crufty at this point, and Dents has a very nice design so far. Modular everything, and CORBA for administration. No more overloading of signals and crap like that. Whee!
Wasn't this the whole idea of both Stormix and Corel's distribution as well? I'm not so sure there's room for three "Debian for non-hacker" distributions.