The Speex project aims to build an open-source patent-free voice codec. Unlike other codecs like MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, Speex is specially designed for compressing voice at low bit-rates for applications such as voice over IP (VoIP). In some sense, it is meant to be complementary to the Ogg Vorbis codec.

Integerized Vorbis Project is a fast, integerized implementation of the OGG Vorbis decoder, capable of running faster than real time on processors such as the Cirrus Logic 7212/7312. This implementation is written in C.

Ogg-on-a-Chip Project: The Ogg Vorbis Player audio decoder algorithm shall be implemented in form of a system-on-a-chip by using hardware/software co-design techniques. A prototyping board (XSV800 from Xess) with the open source LEON processor based on the SAPRCV8 architecture, will serve as SoC platform. uCLinux shall be used as embedded operating system. After an analysis of the performance requirements of the decoder, the system shall be partitioned appropriately and implemented as hardware/software co-design. As a result of this partition, a new core has to be designed and added to the Leon Plataform using AMBA-Bus

Happy coding !!!

is the second the thing hardware developers need to develop their decoders ?

Keep a look at their homepages !

yes or no ?

Yes. Such code already exists BTW, but it's not free.

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ok, but is THIS one free ? or do the charge for the use ?

Surely this should be Ogg projects, not Vorbis projects?

This is good, and interesting however what happened to Ogg Tarkin - the video compressor? Is anyone here on the Tarkin mailing list?

From what I gather efforts are mainly being invested into Vorbis, which makes sense.

Will Ogg-FLAC ever exist in a more official form?

What is Ogg Squish?

Ruairi

The first one is an Ogg project, the second two Vorbis.



You can read the archives on xiph.org.



Squish is a lossless codec just like FLAC is. It is an old project from Monty. I understood that after Vorbis get's a bit more mature, he'd like to have another go at it and see if he can get it to perform better than FLAC.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'a more official form'.

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Garf,

Good old IE killed my reply. Damn.

Anyway... "more official" meaning published on xiph.org, and perhaps a mailing list to accompany it. Ogg Flac is from what I gather a possible use of the Ogg container.

One thing that slightly disconcerts me with the Ogg project is the fact that in general, people I talk to think that Ogg is just "the lossy audio compressor", not the container format which can host all kinds of multimedia stuff. That's why I don't agree with the title "Ogg on a Chip". It should be "Ogg-Vorbis on a chip", if anything.

Perhaps it would be a good idea get Ogg promoted effectively, by specifying that Ogg and/or Vorbis get quoted correctly.

Ruairi.

..i think that all thoose projects should be coordinated and "supervised" to be more incisive in the "lossy scene".
Don't you think so ?