[abcde] Re: ogg

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:12:15AM -0600, Evan Jones wrote:
> Maybe give Lame a try? It has some basic support for Ogg Vorbis at this 
> point, but it needs a bunch of patches and such installed for it to work 
> properly. Could lame compiled with Vorbis support and without MP3 
> support be distributed with Debian?

Ugh, the binaries might be, but I don't know about the source since the
tarball would still contain the mp3 encoding algorithms.

You might want to ask debian-legal@lists.debian.org.

> > Vorbis beta2 doesn't support joint stereo yet, it may be worthwhile to hold
> > off making it the default for abcde until this feature exists.
> 
> I would certainly agree. I plan on replacing my MP3 collection with 
> Vorbis as soon as it is a little more "finished", but right now I don't 
> see that happening until the stereo code is there.

I've heard more rumors they'll hit 1.0 in the next three months or so, with
a final file size of 70% of the equivalent quality mp3.
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