Bear with the text-based format for a bit. I'll make it nicer over
time, but for now it's just a lynx -dump of the html one.
As always you can find these at http://www.vorbis.com/ot/
and http://www.vorbis.com/ot/latest.html for the latest one.
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Ogg Traffic for Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Jack Moffitt
<[1]jack@xiph.org>
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Table of Contents
1. [2]Support The Ogg Project
2. [3]Status Updates
2.1. [4]Stan Seibert
2.2. [5]Jack Moffitt
3. [6]New Developments
3.1. [7]A Free MacOS Ogg Player Project
3.2. [8]ogg123 On OS X
3.3. [9]Ogg Compiled As A Framework
4. [10]Interesting Happenings
4.1. [11]New Listening Tests
4.2. [12]Another Proposed Hardware Project
1. Support The Ogg Project
The Xiph.org Foundation is the not-for-profit company that funds and
manages the Ogg, Icecast, and other related projects. We are now
accepting donations via [13]PayPal. Please consider contributing to
our efforts by sending a donation to <[14]donate@xiph.org> via PayPal.
2. Status Updates
The Ogg team is still pushing towards RC3 among other goals. Here is a
quick update from some of the most active developers in the last few
weeks.
2.1. Stan Seibert
Stan has been doing a lot of autotools cleanup and fine tuning in the
last week.
2.2. Jack Moffitt
Jack fixed Solaris x86 building for icecast 2.0. Next on his list is
FreeBSD builds, and then the icecast 2.0 alpha 1 release.
3. New Developments
Not a whole lot happened this week; everyone is just coding.
3.1. A Free MacOS Ogg Player Project
Don Goodman [15]complained about the lack of a free (as in beer and
speech) Ogg player for MacOS and volunteered to start work on this
project. Several others agreed and also offered to help.
3.2. ogg123 On OS X
Richard Clamp [16]has ported ogg123 to OS X. It has been tested with
ESD, but the native drivers might work as well.
3.3. Ogg Compiled As A Framework
Elifarley Coelho [17]has compiled Ogg as a framework under
ProjectBuilder. He has also [18]done the same for Vorbis.
4. Interesting Happenings
A lot of mail comes in to the various lists as well as to the team's
personal mailboxes. The following is a highlight of the interesting
things that have been mentioned or announced.
4.1. New Listening Tests
ff123 [19]invited all to participate in a new listening test comparing
Vorbis at 128kbps from CVS against RC2 Vorbis, WMA8, and other codecs.
He expects Vorbis to be much improved from it's earlier scores (which
were already very good).
4.2. Another Proposed Hardware Project
Pulkit Khandelwal [20]wrote that he is thinking about a hardware
decoding project as his final year project at Cardiff University in
the UK. The potential MP3 licensing problems got him interested in
Ogg.
References
1. mailto:jack@xiph.org
13. http://www.paypal.com/
14. mailto:donate@xiph.org
15. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0378.html
16. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0388.html
17. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0182.html
18. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0188.html
19. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0384.html
20. http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/0172.html
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