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...all future titles. This assumes that it works as well as anticipated. Other subdivisions of Electronic Arts are looking at it as well. The day Vorbis is ready with a decent level of first-cut optimization is the day I start incorporating it into our apps, with SimCity 4000 being the first. Paul Pedriana Senior Software Engineer Maxis --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is n...

>>You shouldn't do that. Converting mp3 to >>vorbis can ONLY decrease the quality. No doubt the people who want to do this have the sound file in no other usable format. They have no choice. Since MP3 has legal issues, they may very well stand to benefit from such a conversion when there are no alternatives. No need to criticize them for being in this predicament.

I was wondering about what the near and longer term future directions for optimization of Vorbis decompression are. I am interested in using it as a replacement for MP3. But it seems at this point (not certain about this) that Vorbis doesn't really have much optimization implemented yet. By this I mean, for example, implementing something like MMX x86 optimzations in order to speed up the

We spent a little time here taking a look at the Vorbis licensing scheme and ran into some possible issues. In particular, the Vorbis FAQ page here says that the LGPL license applies to Vorbis libraries and GPL applies to source code (at least that's what I gather). http://www.vorbis.com/faq.html#flic http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html Reading the text of these Gnu

>>What Paul wants to do is kosher. If Maxis >>decides the LGPL is in the way, we'll remove >>it. (although i honestly think in his >>circumstances things are kosher under the license). I really doubt there are going to be any issues. What we (Maxis) want to do with Vorbis really isn't any different than what any other company would want to do with it.

>>As a fellow "lead programmer at a" [not-so-major] >>"game comapy" I understand your predicament. But >>instead of waiting for some volunteer to do it >>for free, why don't you convince EA to put someone >>on the task? I realize that good optimizers are >>expensive, but surely EA is looking at way more

I want to use Vorbis to stream music off the HD in my DirectX app. Currently, we have a generic streamer that writes raw digital sound data into the primary sound buffer. We plug sound sources (e.g. wav files, PCM files) into this streamer by having the sound sources have an interface something like this: class SourceDataSourceInterface{ virtual bool Init(char* pSource) = 0;