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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
> 
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