Sorry for asking, but libogg and libvorbis especially are still developed? No updates from september 2004. I just need to know if I have to move to FLAC [which is actively maintained] to store my CDs.
Mihai Badila (dx@teamevolve.ro) wrote:> Sorry for asking, but libogg and libvorbis especially are still developed? > No updates from september 2004. > > I just need to know if I have to move to FLAC [which is actively maintained] > to store my CDs.Vorbis and FLAC are different codecs and they serve different needs. Vorbis is lossy, and is great for storing and transferring music in environments where space is at a premium (e.g. portable players, or streaming over the Internet). FLAC is lossless and is great for archival storage. You can store your music on large hard drives in FLAC format and then encode from FLAC into (lossy) Vorbis for your portables at need. Since the FLAC files are lossless, you'll never need to rip the CDs again. -- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." greg@wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20050502/ba9e3345/attachment.pgp
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:57, Mihai Badila wrote:> Sorry for asking, but libogg and libvorbis especially are still developed? > No updates from september 2004.There are a limited number of xiph developers and lots of things to hack on. Right now attention is focused on other things, but there is still encoder tuning work happening outside of the xiph tree that occasionally gets folded back in. Development on the vorbis front might be quiet right now, but it's not moribund. The software still builds and works everywhere, after all.> I just need to know if I have to move to FLAC [which is actively maintained] > to store my CDs.If you've got the storage space, FLAC is good choice for CD archiving. John
On 03-May-2005 Mihai Badila wrote:> Sorry for asking, but libogg and libvorbis especially are still developed? > No updates from september 2004.It's very slowly developed because they are working on other projects. But other people (not at xiph) are working on it more actively. Two weeks ago Aoyumi released a new improved version of the vorbis encoder: http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/test.html> I just need to know if I have to move to FLAC [which is actively maintained] > to store my CDs.Vorbis and FLAC have different purposes. -- Giuliano.