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2000 Sep 07
0
AW: What's in a name
...wo current MPEG-4 compressions, AAC and TwinVQ.
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Von: Thomas Illingworth[SMTP:tom.Illingworth@ibase.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. September 2000 11:02
An: 'vorbis@xiph.org'
Betreff: RE: [vorbis] What's in a name
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...
2000 Sep 07
4
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