Re: [mpc-users] Invitation to participate on MPC ( musepack ) SV8 specs and development

Way to go Christian !

By the way, I've taken the liberty to submit your message as a news for
Hydrogenaudio. I hope you won't mind.

Best Regards
Jo=C3=ABl


On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 01:57, Christian HJ Wiesner wrote:
> Hi,
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> sorry for the x-post, just ignore this email if you are not interested=20
> in MPC as an audio compression format.
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> While musepack has a lot of fans since some time now, especially those=20
> with a bigger interest in quality than small filesizes, the project has=
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> undoubtedly been hurt in the past as there has been a lot of talking=20
> about an upcoming development step from the SV7 to the SV8=20
> specification, without any real results to be achieved.
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> This is the last attempt to get MPC SV8 moving, and with the help of th=
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> Hydrogenaudio.org community.
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> The main developer of MPC, who had been driving the project to its=20
> current, excellent state has lost interest to continue with development=
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> and we hope to be able to raise his interest in it again. Since more=20
> than one year there are 4 mailing lists existing, namely
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> mpc-devel at freelists dot org
> mpc-general at freelists dot org
> mpc-users at freelists dot org
> mpc-cvs at freelists dot org
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> They were hardly ever used, except for the spam that has been a big=20
> probem for freelists.org hosting them, as you can see by having a look=20
> 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=20
> closed to posting from subscribed users now )
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> MPC shall go opensource with the first existing SV8 alpa version, and i=
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> was added to the list of projects on the Corecodec multimedia opensourc=
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> community, see http://mpc.corecodec.org
> and http://corecodec.org/projects/mpc for more details.
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> However, i am preparing a series of technical emails to the mpc-devel=20
> list with the following subjects
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> 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 ? )
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> You all are invited to subscribe to the lists and to actively=20
> participate in this development. I am convinced MPC can have a great=20
> future, and our main goal should be to show the worl that MPC is a=20
> living project, with ongoing development.
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> Best regards
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> Christian
> MPC and matroska project admin
> http://mpc.corecodec.org
> http://corecodec.org/projects/mpc
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> http://mpc.corecodec.org
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