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=20
in MPC as an audio compression format.

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=20
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.

This is the last attempt to get MPC SV8 moving, and with the help of the=20
Hydrogenaudio.org community.

The main developer of MPC, who had been driving the project to its=20
current, excellent state has lost interest to continue with development,=20
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

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=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 )

MPC shall go opensource with the first existing SV8 alpa version, and it=20
was added to the list of projects on the Corecodec multimedia opensource=20
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=20
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=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.

Best regards

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

http://mpc.corecodec.org