Slashdot interview re: vorbis

[Brent Harding]

Is there a debian package yet out for vorbis? Can it record directly from
the audio device, so I never need the wave file to encode it, that it
encodes on the way?
At 07:13 PM 8/17/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>About 4 or 5 weeks ago, Kirk got me interested in the new audio format
>called OGG vorbis.  Yeah, strange name I know, but this looks really
>exciting.  This is an opensource, GPL, patent-free codec that, in my
>opinion, already beats MP3.  Anyway, the guy who's running the show was
>interviewed by slashdot, and it's an interesting read.  If you can stick
>with it through the initial technical details, it gets more readable.  You
>can find it at:
>
>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/14/1034209
>
>I've been chasing this band-wagon for a month already, so feel free to fire
>any questions you might have my way.
>
>Geoff.
>
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>Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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