Aug 27 2008
libvorbis
To quote the README file included with libvorbis,
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 license
fee, royalty or patent concerns.
Vorbis is provided to the open source community by Xiph.org and can be downloaded from here.
The package to compile Vorbis for the WARP is available from the public svn repository at PIKA. To download it, run
#> svn co http://svn.pikatech.com/pads/extra_packages/libvorbis/ ./
Vorbis is used in conjunction with ogg which can also be retrieved from this site, here. The ogg package must be downloaded and compiled before the vorbis one will work.