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- This project makes use of the Ogg Vorbis SOFTWARE CODEC SOURCE CODE.
- DISTRIBUTION AND REPRODUCTION OF THIS SOURCE IS GOVERNED BY
- THE GNU LESSER/LIBRARY PUBLIC LICENSE 2, WHICH IS INCLUDED WITH
- THIS PROJECT. PLEASE READ THE DISTRIBUTION TERMS IN THE FILE
- COPYING.TXT.
-
- THE OggSQUISH SOURCE CODE IS (C) COPYRIGHT 1994-2000
- by Monty <monty@xiph.org> and The XIPHOPHORUS Company
- http://www.xiph.org/
-
- WHAT IS VORBIS:
-
- Vorbis is a general purpose audio and music encoding format
- contemporary to MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond
- MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike the MPEG sponsored formats (and other
- proprietary formats such as RealAudio G2 and Windows' flavor of the
- month), the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to the public domain.
- All the technical details are published and documented, and any
- software entity may make full use of the format without royalty or
- patent concerns.
-
- This package contains:
-
- .) libvorbis, an LGPLed software implementation of
- the Vorbis specification by the Xiphophorus company
- (http://www.xiph.org/)
-
- .) libvorbisfile, an LGPLed convenience library
- built on Vorbis designed to simplify common uses and a number of GPL
- example programs
-
- .) libvorbisenc, an LGPL library that provides a simple, programmatic
- encoding setup interface
-
- .) example code making use of libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile and
- libvorbisenc
-
- CONTACT:
-
- The Ogg homepage is located at 'http://www.xiph.org/ogg/'.
- Vorbis's homepage is located at 'http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/'.
- Up to date technical documents, contact information, source code and
- pre-built utilities may be found there.
-