Before people jump on Steven for the negativity of his post. Remember, he is
the Squeak sound guy.

Musicians *in general* have better hearing than the rest of us. They can
hear things us no-earplug-wearing-mowing-our yard-for-X-years can hear.

Though the DVD stuff sound interesting, I doubt we could get Macrovision to
let us put their encryption algorithms into Open Source. There are many
unencrypted discs however.

adam hill...

(I am still recovering from a 16 bit/44kHz Vs 24/96 argument)


> > "MPEG3 MP3 (MPEG Layer 3) is a method of compressing audio samples with
> > minimal loss of quality, in fact compression of up to 12:1 is
> possible with
> > no loss of quality.
>
> This is hogwash marketing drivel from the MPEG committee. MP3
> sounds marginally
> better than RealAudio compression. Anyone with working ears and headphones
> costing more than $3 can easily tell the difference between MPs and even a
> cheaps**t sound card.
>
>
> > PPS>  On a related subject, has anyone looked into Squeak and
> DVD support?
> > DVD (digital versatile disk, or digital video disk) promises to
> combine new
> > compression techniques for both audio and video signals [...]
>
> DVD can store over a dozen format, but most of them will be decoded by the
> player or very low-level software. I'm not sure of the value of
> writing this
> stuff in Squeak.
>
> --
> stp
>
> Stephen Travis Pope | stp at create.ucsb.edu |
> http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp