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> I am a lead programmer at a major game company > (Maxis) and Vorbis is potentially very important tous. > ... > 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 As a fellow "lead programmer at a" [not-so-major]

>>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

hi - does anyone on this list know if it is possible to use the vorbis audio codec in conjunction with an AVI file?? what would it take to do this? are there any apps written for this already, that could prove this codec useful with an AVI?? I can attach MP3 to an AVI of course, but there are many playback problems (mainly sync + crappy sound) with MP3... any of you developers working on

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

> >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

Hi there. Last year I was using Wine 1.2 and 1.3 versions under Linux Mint 11 Katya tyo run an the old Maxis SimFarm. It was able to run but would freeze up after a few hours. Also I noticed there was no sound for the game. I Also ran some Win32 apps, some of which had sound and they had no problems at all. Is the support for Win16 apps not being maintained any more? Currently I am in the middle

I have finally encountered this problem in such a way that everything went awry. Running Simcity 4 Rush Hour with the following command line: env WINEPREFIX="/home/john/.wine" wine C:\\PROG\~FBU\\Maxis\\SIMC\~ZMW\\Apps\\SimCity\ 4.exe -intro:off Which brought up the game, just fine. I opened my largest city, and very soon after that, while I was adding something to the layout, the

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

In order to compile the latest Vorbis library on the Macintosh, the change appended to this message needs to be made to os_types.h.in. Then, anyone who wants to actually build it must first copy os_types.h.in to os_types.h by hand, since MacOS does not include a command line and thus cannot run configure. It really bugs me that the whole "platforms which don't support configure

>>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.

>>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.

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

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

> 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

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

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

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