Ogg Vorbis 1.0 Open-Source Music Software Released
Ogg Vorbis is an entirely free open-source alternative to the MP3
music format. The music encoding and streaming technology in previous
betas has been slowly gaining popularity in the geek community, not least
because it is completely unencumbered by patent or licensing issues -
something not true of the MP3 format. The Ogg Vorbis team claims their
product features better sound quality at various file sizes than
alternative formats and provides music samples to prove their point. The
software is now officially out of beta and ready for public release. At
the site, you can download a large number of players and encoding
software based on this technology, supported on all sorts of operating
systems.
http://www.vorbis.com/
RealNetworks Releases New Streaming and
Production Software
RealNetworks has released an open-source streaming media client and
server project called Helix. The Helix server can stream three different
formats: RealNetworks' own audio and video formats, Apple's QuickTime,
and, significantly, Microsoft's Windows Media format. Helix can support
Windows Media because RealNetworks has reverse-engineered Microsoft's
technology, without permission. This is legal but may embroil
RealNetworks in litigation anyway if Microsoft decides to be nasty. Helix
is open source, and RealNetworks will release the source code to much of
the underlying technology, but not the core codecs that encode and decode
the media formats. RealNetworks has to be hoping that programmers will
create numerous streaming media applications and indirectly benefit the
company - check out the Helix Community for details. CNET has more.
Helix:
http://www.realnetworks.com/solutions/leadership/products.html
Helix Community:
http://www.helixcommunity.org/
CNET:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945406.html
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