Richard Stallman on Free Software

Geoff Shang gshang at uq.net.au
Fri Jan 25 22:01:12 EST 2002


Hi:

It's an .ogg file.  You can get the vorbis input plugin from www.vorbis.com
- go to downloads and to windows.

Folks, vorbis is the free, open, patentless, free of royalties lossy audio
compression codec that already out-performs MP3 and is still improving.  If
you aren't equiped to handle this format yet, I highly recommend doing so.
For linux, you can get redhat RPM's from vorbis.com as well as source
tarballs.  You need libogg, libvorbis, libao, vorbis-tools and, if you want
to use the ogg123 player, you need to get curl from elsewhere (this need
isn't documented).  People running Debian Syd can get the vorbis-tools
package and the rest should take care of itself.  If 1.0rc3 hasnt' appeared
in woody yet, it should have by now, it will soon.

Let me know if you have any queries.

Geoff.





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