----- Forwarded message from Christian HJ Wiesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Hi, I know i am not subscribed, but can you make a one time exception and post this mail ? Thanks Christian
>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 _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
