What's the current status of VP3/Ogg integration? The CVS doesn't seem to be very active - and (maybe I'm not looking hard enough) I don't see any ogg-specific stuff here. I'm one of around 30 global techs for Indymedia, one of the last things we need for full adoption of free media formats is a free video format. We're working hard to promote Vorbis, many of the local IMCs (Independent Media Centers, a list of which is on the left-hand side of the global site indymedia.org) have started promoting it either as an exclusivly-supported audio format or as a choice for publishers. A bulk of the video available on the network is in Real format, the longer we go without a free alternative the more video will continue to be published in non-free formats (and thus a lengthier process to reencode from archives). In the effort of getting Ogg Theora available I'm willing to devote a portion of my time on the Theora project. I'm a coder and because of my work on our audio encoding library for Freeform (one of the codebases for IMC sites) I'm familiar with the basics of libogg. Is there a roadmap? Tasklist? Or are we all just looking at this gift we've been given and scratching our heads trying to figure out what to do with it? :-) Thanks, and look forward to working with you all. --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives Ogg project homepage: xiph.org/ogg To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
hi -- theora is alive and well. An early release (proof of concept), with integrated Ogg/Vorbis/VP3 encoder & decoder, is available at theora.org. You can get it from CVS (project name = theora), and there is a tarball at the homepage as well. It's been tested on Linux; for fun, I just compiled the encoder under Cygwin. -----Original Message----- From: Arc [mailto:arc@indymedia.org] Sent: Wed 10/2/2002 12:19 AM To: theora-dev@xiph.org Cc: Subject: [theora-dev] Status? What's the current status of VP3/Ogg integration? The CVS doesn't seem to be very active - and (maybe I'm not looking hard enough) I don't see any ogg-specific stuff here. I'm one of around 30 global techs for Indymedia, one of the last things we need for full adoption of free media formats is a free video format. We're working hard to promote Vorbis, many of the local IMCs (Independent Media Centers, a list of which is on the left-hand side of the global site indymedia.org) have started promoting it either as an exclusivly-supported audio format or as a choice for publishers. A bulk of the video available on the network is in Real format, the longer we go without a free alternative the more video will continue to be published in non-free formats (and thus a lengthier process to reencode from archives). In the effort of getting Ogg Theora available I'm willing to devote a portion of my time on the Theora project. I'm a coder and because of my work on our audio encoding library for Freeform (one of the codebases for IMC sites) I'm familiar with the basics of libogg. Is there a roadmap? Tasklist? Or are we all just looking at this gift we've been given and scratching our heads trying to figure out what to do with it? :-) Thanks, and look forward to working with you all. --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives Ogg project homepage: xiph.org/ogg To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5355 bytes Desc: winmail.dat Url : lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/attachments/20021002/f8803d1e/winmail-0001.bin
Arc wrote:> What's the current status of VP3/Ogg integration? The CVS doesn't seemIt's alpha stage - what that means can be read in the FAQ on theora.org. Basically, it comes down to this paragraph: "Q: Can I use Theora to encode stuff right now? A: Yes, but we strongly, strongly recommend against it, for anything but test-cases. This is not a full release in any sense of the word, it is simply a milestone, and if you start encoding things right away, there's a really good chance that it will break when you try to play it with tools we release when the final version is released." Not trying to slow down your enthusiasm here, just don't have any bad surprises. :) The final release of Theora is scheduled for somewhen around June 2003, and starting at some point, I expect upwards compatible beta versions/release candidates. <p>Moritz --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives Ogg project homepage: xiph.org/ogg To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
>> It's been tested on Linux; for fun, I just compiled the encoder under>> Cygwin. >Cool, let's see how it does on Freebsd. :-) Just FTR, it compiled (with some arm twisting), but when I ran the encoder, it created a garbage file. Looked fine while doing it though. --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives Ogg project homepage: xiph.org/ogg To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3614 bytes Desc: winmail.dat Url : lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/attachments/20021002/e157e103/winmail-0001.bin
Hello there, i have just today found out about this project and really enthusiastic about it. how come no activity in the dev list? all the devs have gone away? reason? Really i would like to know, maybe i could contribute, i work in a signal processing department maybe this could be a project that student could work on Sincerely --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives Ogg project homepage: xiph.org/ogg To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.