From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.154]) (1943 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:29:09 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id LAA20943; Thu Aug 17 11:29:05 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA02144 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:29:15 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000817113549.007ac500@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:35:49 -0500 Subject: Re: Slashdot interview re: vorbis In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Is there a debian package yet out for vorbis? Can it record directly from the audio device, so I never need the wave file to encode it, that it encodes on the way? At 07:13 PM 8/17/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hi all: > >About 4 or 5 weeks ago, Kirk got me interested in the new audio format >called OGG vorbis. Yeah, strange name I know, but this looks really >exciting. This is an opensource, GPL, patent-free codec that, in my >opinion, already beats MP3. Anyway, the guy who's running the show was >interviewed by slashdot, and it's an interesting read. If you can stick >with it through the initial technical details, it gets more readable. You >can find it at: > >http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/14/1034209 > >I've been chasing this band-wagon for a month already, so feel free to fire >any questions you might have my way. > >Geoff. > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >