similar to: RE: FhG $15k minimum and games...

>>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

>>The game companies are interested in >>Vorbis, and this is a good thing :) I am a lead programmer at a major game company (Maxis) and Vorbis is potentially very important to us. I am pushing to make it the default streaming sound format (e.g. non-sound effects) for all future titles. This assumes that it works as well as anticipated. Other subdivisions of Electronic Arts are

>Would you users donate money if that was available? Even if it was $1? >I mean, 100k people donating $1 each could go a long way. Setting up some sort of tax-exempt organization (similar to the FSF) may be useful here. I don't mind chipping in my £1 worth, but getting a tax deduction at the same time would persuade more people to donate, I think.

When I said I'd pay my £1 worth, I didn't mean it literally. Anyway, the point about larger companies is a good one. Earliers posts talk about if games companies would be willing to give funds to develop ogg, if these donations are tax deductable surely they are much more likely to give. The question is how legal is this? If they are getting direct benift from ogg, can that make tax

Doesn't the GPL license forbid the codec from being incorporated in commercial products? Or at least have to provide their source for free? If this is the case then I doubt commercial game makers will be interested. Maybe the licence could be changed to allow the decoder to be incorporated in commercial products providing they pay a minimal amount and/or be forced to advertise the fact that

Taken from http://www.twice.com/html/pagebeta.cfm?InputKey=2853 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomson, Fraunhofer Developing Enhanced MP3 Codec Called mp3PRO Jan. 7, 2001 By Joseph Palenchar Las Vegas -- Thomson and the Fraunhofer Institute, the co-developers of MP3, are working with a third company to develop an improved MP3 codec intended to deliver

In light of the recent study - http://www.airwindows.com/encoders/index.html - posted at slashdot, I've come to realize how little I know about this whole field. So, I'm making an appeal to the audio experts here. I want 'jukebox' quality, meaning ~0 artifacts while maintaining a good compression ratio, but not quite 'archival' (read high bitrate) as I don't mind

Looks like the mpeg gestapo are frantically at work cracking down on mpeg projects. Several important projects (tsunami mpeg, gogo, faac, etc) were shut down by the jack booted patent nazis. Since FhG, mpegla, etc plan to start charging royalties on everything even remotely mpeg-related very soon, I expect a lot of interest is going to shift to Vorbis. And soon thereafter, I expect FhG to attack

At 14:45 6/9/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Streaming music is $250 minimum, with, I believe, less than 2% >royalties. For $500 a year you can stream all the music in the world >pretty much, prefectly legally. If you make a profit, it's a royalty. >But MP3's royalty here is higher than the royalty for the actual music. >That is out of whack. Especially in an age where we are

Hi, a very basic question: What ist the easiest way in R to concatenate two lists of vectors? E.g, I have x<-list(c(1,2)) y<-list(c(3,4)) and I want to receive list(c(1,2),c(3,4)) thank you! Axel ________________________________________ Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (IAO) Dipl. Inf. Axel Benz Nobelstr. 12 D-70569 Stuttgart Germany Tel. +49(0)7119702289 Fax.

At 07:12 PM 5/21/2004, you wrote: >2. This is a project where all the broadcasters, myself included, are >blind. Last time I tried it, and admittedly it was a long time ago, >Oddcast presented some issues with regard to screen reader accessibility. >I should really run it up the stick again to see what it's like nowadays. I released a blind-friendly version of oddcast a long

dear R-tists, i want to graph information for the German Federal States (Bundeslaender) using the maps package. unfortunately there is no maps for the German Bundeslaender. does anyone have an idea / a source where to get map data that can be used in the maps package that graphs structures below the country level. in the long run it would also be interesting to integrate Swiss Cantons and

Hi, I am about to write functions for multivariate kernel densitiy estimation with mixed categorical and continuous date (accoring to Jeff Racine and Qi Li), and the leave-one-out window esitmation needs a lot of computation. I am now optimizing the code performance and therefore fhe following questions: As R uses call-by-value for functions, is it computational expensive to pass large matrices

> >So uh, you think it's worth more for mp3, than the actual music > >involved? > > > >Come on. > > Hmm.. so what you're saying is that for under $2K I can get an unlimited > distribution license from the recording industry? To burn, distribute, > sell and market as much of their material as I like? Wow. Sign me up. Streaming music is $250

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jack Moffitt wrote: > Maybe this is a stupid question, but why don't you just use Oddsock's > plugins which support the better protocol? Not a stupid question. There's three considerations. 1. This project has around fifty broadcasters. It has been running for 3.5 years, and whilst some have moved to using plugins like SAM which (presumably) does

hi wine community, i recently wrote to this list in my effort to get traktor dj studio to work with wine. many thanks to robert reif, who got it fully working with the wineoss driver and native oss. the problem was, that wineoss needs mmap access to the soundcard to correctly initilize dsound. dsound is needed for 4channel playback (master&headphone) my configuration is fc2 with kernel

Hey guys, This is the final list of the new maintainers of each plugin. We need two more things to do: First please the owners of the repos add the rest of the maintainers. Second I will add a note on each rails/plugin mentioning this repos updates. So from now on, if someone else is interested in helping/contributing please send a message to the appropriate repo owner. verification

> performances. That's ~125,000 performances a year, which equates to about > $180,000. > > Significantly higher than the Frauhofer license, unless you generate > $9Mil/yr or more in revenue from your stream. The rates are in arbitration, and I doubt they will come out anywhere near that amount. It just isn't feasible, even for large companies. Reember, tradidional

Hi all, -------- I have installed a TDM400 with one active FXS port (TDM10B) an connected it to a Siemens Euroset 2015 analogue phone. I have installed some smom IP phones to the network as well and configured them as usual (sip.conf). For configuring the TDM10B I have used FXO signalling in /etc/zaptel.conf and in /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf. I definded the TDM channel and the Snom phones to the

Hi everyone. Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries where patents on algorithms are