From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 24 12:49:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from itchy.serv.net (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7553E14C41 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from utz@itchy.serv.net) Received: from localhost (utz@localhost) by itchy.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA79841; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:48:06 -0700 (PDT) From: The Utz Family To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on VQF/MP4? In-Reply-To: <19990824163103.A51054@nathan.ruhr.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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