First off, I'd like to say thanks for this project. I know that it is needed. I'm happy to see that work is progressing, and especially happy at the sound quality that I got out of my first encoding and decoding. However, I know that there are some types of sounds that still don't quite work with Vorbis (well, that's true for pretty much any lossy codec). I think I found a weak spot. In the first song I encoded, there is a short low-frequency slide. At that point, I noticed some artifacts. They're hard to describe, so I can provide an audio clip if someone would like to hear it themselves.. I'm also curious to know about the stability of the audio format. Will it be changed significantly in the near future? Would it be safe for me to encode something today, and expect it to play with the whatever-is-then-current player a year from now? I imagine I should wait, but I just thought I'd ask. Thanks. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Dinner not ready: (A)bort / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ (R)etry (P)izza \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088@tc.umn.edu ] --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
> However, I know that there are some types of sounds that still don't > quite work with Vorbis (well, that's true for pretty much any lossy > codec). I think I found a weak spot. In the first song I encoded, > there is a short low-frequency slide. At that point, I noticed some > artifacts. They're hard to describe, so I can provide an audio clip if > someone would like to hear it themselves..I'd be *very* interested in that clip. Feel free to mail it to me (just me, not the whole list).> I'm also curious to know about the stability of the audio format. Will > it be changed significantly in the near future? Would it be safe for me > to encode something today, and expect it to play with the > whatever-is-then-current player a year from now? I imagine I should > wait, but I just thought I'd ask.As of the merge I did on monday, the 1.0 file format is frozen. It's still technically in beta (that is, we could yet find a deep bug that fixing would break compatability) but maintaining compatability is now officially important. I'm finally encoding things for posterity myself... Monty --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/