Invitation to participate on MPC ( musepack ) SV8 specs and development

Hi,

sorry for the x-post, just ignore this email if you are not interested
in MPC as an audio compression format.

While musepack has a lot of fans since some time now, especially those
with a bigger interest in quality than small filesizes, the project has
undoubtedly been hurt in the past as there has been a lot of talking
about an upcoming development step from the SV7 to the SV8
specification, without any real results to be achieved.

This is the last attempt to get MPC SV8 moving, and with the help of the
Hydrogenaudio.org community.

The main developer of MPC, who had been driving the project to its
current, excellent state has lost interest to continue with development,
and we hope to be able to raise his interest in it again. Since more
than one year there are 4 mailing lists existing, namely

mpc-devel at freelists dot org
mpc-general at freelists dot org
mpc-users at freelists dot org
mpc-cvs at freelists dot org

They were hardly ever used, except for the spam that has been a big
probem for freelists.org hosting them, as you can see by having a look
at the archives on gmane.org :
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.mpc.devel
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.mpc.general
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.mpc.user
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.mpc.cvs
( The spam problems turned out to be pretty annoying, so the lists are
closed to posting from subscribed users now )

MPC shall go opensource with the first existing SV8 alpa version, and it
was added to the list of projects on the Corecodec multimedia opensource
community, see http://mpc.corecodec.org
and http://corecodec.org/projects/mpc for more details.

However, i am preparing a series of technical emails to the mpc-devel
list with the following subjects

Description and Discussion of the SV8 bitstream
Creation of Conversion Tools from SV7 to SV8
Adding a lossless mode to MPC
Adding a low bitrate mode to MPC ( SBR ? )

You all are invited to subscribe to the lists and to actively
participate in this development. I am convinced MPC can have a great
future, and our main goal should be to show the worl that MPC is a
living project, with ongoing development.

Best regards

Christian
MPC and matroska project admin
http://mpc.corecodec.org
http://corecodec.org/projects/mpc


http://mpc.corecodec.org