I had been working on an essay of my experiences with various codecs for a bit, and when slashdot's post came up, I couldn't help but excerpt part of and post it up there. It got a lot of comments and moderation points, so it's given me some "animo" to fix it up and put the rest of it out there. I'm going to distribute this under an open content license. If anyone wants to print it in the trade press or newbie sites feel free, but keep it intact. http://papaya.altamente.com/ogg.html I think it's an easy to read, non techie look at music encoding (ogg in particular) that should be a nice intro for newbies. Any technical details that I've missed or errors that I've made, I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks, James O'Malley --- >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 needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
At 11:53 7/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:>Any technical details that I've missed or errors that I've made, I'd >appreciate any feedback.Ogg Vorbis is a she? (I saw after rereading that it refers to 'woman of my dreams', but it still sounds awkward to me) Also:>its intensity stereo method of analysis made for some ugly pre-echo.Hmm, can intensity stereo really cause pre-echo? Also, you use free as in speech and 'libre'. Perhaps it will not be very clear what you mean to people unfamiliar with FSF ideas. It's clear in the text you can't really explain it in 3 words. If you consider it important enough to mention several times, it is worthwhile to explain why exactly 'libre' is important. This is Vorbis's reason of existance after all. I'm quite sure Frauhoffer is not the correct spelling. I would (personally) leave out the part about visually comparing the bitrate modes. Visual comparisation of perceptual codecs are basically flawed. (the 'big test' remark saves you a bit there) Quote:>But for home, it's got to be ogg and a non PC dedicated >system sound system.Goof here Also: OGG, ogg, Ogg Bit more uniformity in naming same thing is always good.>mp3 doesn't shine at relatively low bitratesCompared to ogg, mp3 doesn't really shine at any bitrate (you forgot punctuation too)>Nothing but OGG has stepped up to fill the void.This isn't true. It's just that anything else is so patented as to be useless. (This is all IMHO of course) -- GCP --- >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 needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:53:52AM -0400, Vorbis wrote:> I had been working on an essay of my experiences with various codecs for a > bit, and when slashdot's post came up, I couldn't help but excerpt part of > and post it up there. It got a lot of comments and moderation points, so > it's given me some "animo" to fix it up and put the rest of it out there. > I'm going to distribute this under an open content license. If anyone > wants to print it in the trade press or newbie sites feel free, but keep it > intact. > > http://papaya.altamente.com/ogg.html > > I think it's an easy to read, non techie look at music encoding (ogg in > particular) that should be a nice intro for newbies. > > Any technical details that I've missed or errors that I've made, I'd > appreciate any feedback.It's nice to see, against all odds, constructive work come from a Slashdotting ;-) I'll read this more carefully tonight, but I *loved* the line about using mp3 encoder cracks... "I had traded my heart for cheap hookers and it hadn't brought me satisfaction." Monty --- >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 needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.