Comment Re:vorbis does rock..... (Score 1) 321
Point taken, but we have tried to be conservative. The releases we've done have been betas and release candidates, but most professional shops would have started at 1.0 much sooner, and release 2.0, 3.0 etc.
We had a very clear picture of the features for 1.0. When the decoder was feature complete and frozen, we called the release RC1. As far as implementors are concerned, this is a feature complete release.
There was actually a bug found in RC1 decode that was fixed in RC2 decode. Since then, no chances to decode have been made, although new API additions were added to make developers happy.
Now the encoder is much more difficult. Getting good audio is hard, and it's only with RC2 and RC3 that we're exploiting the features that we solidified in RC1.
These have all been release candidates. But you have to look at what the important part is - the decoder. The encoder is going to constantly improve for the rest of time. It's the decoder you've got to lock down.
The current plan is to release an RC4 soon that fills out the rest of the missing modes and turns on bitrate management for non 44.1kHz audio. That will be the first completely feature frozen encoder. After some bugfinding fun, that will become 1.0.
We're very nearly there.
We had a very clear picture of the features for 1.0. When the decoder was feature complete and frozen, we called the release RC1. As far as implementors are concerned, this is a feature complete release.
There was actually a bug found in RC1 decode that was fixed in RC2 decode. Since then, no chances to decode have been made, although new API additions were added to make developers happy.
Now the encoder is much more difficult. Getting good audio is hard, and it's only with RC2 and RC3 that we're exploiting the features that we solidified in RC1.
These have all been release candidates. But you have to look at what the important part is - the decoder. The encoder is going to constantly improve for the rest of time. It's the decoder you've got to lock down.
The current plan is to release an RC4 soon that fills out the rest of the missing modes and turns on bitrate management for non 44.1kHz audio. That will be the first completely feature frozen encoder. After some bugfinding fun, that will become 1.0.
We're very nearly there.
