Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:48:06 -0700 (PDT) From: The Utz Family <utz@serv.net> To: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on VQF/MP4? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9908241246540.79744-100000@itchy.serv.net> In-Reply-To: <19990824163103.A51054@nathan.ruhr.de>
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last i read VQF was 'better' but it was 'proprietary' to Yamaha, which is why you dont see any open source players kicking around..... my us$0.02 johnu On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > Hi, > I've recently found a couple pieces of music in a new (to me, at least) > format called VQF. VQF is suposed to be the successoar of mp3 - smaller > files, better quality. Unfortunately, encoding and decoding VQFs is more > expensive (in terms of CPU usage) than en- or decoding MP3. And the various > audio tools for FreeBSD don't support VQF. > > The VQF format is part of the upcoming MPEG-4 standard and a referencce > implementation for the mp4 software is 'freely' available. I'm certainly > willing to try and port this reference implementation to FreeBSD but I > don't want to reinvent the wheel. > > Is anybody already working on this stuff? > > /s/Udo > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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