Vorbis - Sep 2000 - What's in a name

Hi all:

One of the things that struck me immediately about the OGG vorbis codec and
the OGG project in general were the names.  When I was browsing the 2
websites some time ago, I failed to find mention of the relevance of either
of these.  Since names often have some significance in the opensource
movement and these are somewhat unusual, I was wondering if someone could
comment on on OGG and Vorbis in particular?

Geoff.


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explanation taken from
http://music.zdnet.com/misc/lowdown/081500_oggvorbis.html

What does the name "Ogg Vorbis" mean?
First, Vorbis was taken from a character of an ''exquisitor'' in
the book
"Small Gods," a title in a series of Terry Pratchett fantasy novels.
Formally, Vorbis is the name for the specific audio compression scheme used
to create Ogg Vorbis files. It is ultimately part of the Ogg Vorbis CODEC
project (a branch of the overarching, open-multimedia Ogg project), which is
headed by Christopher Montgomery and his team. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Teo de Hesselle [mailto:teo@nvnetworking.com]
Sent: 07 September 2000 10:57
To: vorbis@xiph.org
Subject: RE: [vorbis] What's in a name
> of these.  Since names often have some significance in the opensource
> movement and these are somewhat unusual, I was wondering if someone could
> comment on on OGG and Vorbis in particular?
It's all over the website.

Or it was :)

IIRC, "ogg" was to do something by brute force/ignorance until you got
what
you wanted, from Nethack, apparently.

Thats all I remember.


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> of these.  Since names often have some significance in the opensource
> movement and these are somewhat unusual, I was wondering if someone could
> comment on on OGG and Vorbis in particular?
It's all over the website.

Or it was :)

IIRC, "ogg" was to do something by brute force/ignorance until you got
what
you wanted, from Nethack, apparently.

Thats all I remember.


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NV Networking

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0416 215 289

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According to the Ogg project homepage there are plans for a video codec too,
but there are no details at the moment.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo van der Merwe [mailto:hugovdm@mail.com]
Sent: 07 September 2000 11:01
To: vorbis@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [vorbis] What's in a name

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:01:34AM +0100, Thomas Illingworth wrote:
<SNIP>
> to create Ogg Vorbis files. It is ultimately part of the Ogg Vorbis CODEC
> project (a branch of the overarching, open-multimedia Ogg project), which
is
> headed by Christopher Montgomery and his team. 
A little off the topic, but are there plans for a video? I'm tired of
all these proprietary video formats that cannot be watched (or watched 
"well") under linux...

Hugo van der Merwe

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I thought the term 'Ogging' came from Nettrek originally, not nethack
- check out the hackers dictionary 
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/o/ogg.html
> One of the things that struck me immediately about the OGG vorbis codec and
> the OGG project in general were the names.  When I was browsing the 2
> websites some time ago, I failed to find mention of the relevance of either
> of these.  Since names often have some significance in the opensource
> movement and these are somewhat unusual, I was wondering if someone could
> comment on on OGG and Vorbis in particular?

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